Food or Profilux doser?

DOSER :trampolin !!! So I just started getting my monthly GI Bill payments again so I have all this extra green allowing me to buy food and pay rent. But then again Spam isn’t that bad and my landlord wont be able to find anyone crazy enough to live in this walk-up any ways. Soooooooooo I got as drunk as I could with the 3 beers in my fridge and strolled on over to Profilux.com… oh boy. To make an already long and ranty story-- less long, well, I went ahead and got me a stand-alone doser (4 doser). I filled out everything as fast as I could so I would not have time to talk myself out of it and 2 weeks later on the dot ITS HERE!!! I read the very short and simple instructions and had everything up and doing in 15 min. (would have been less if I didn’t fool around will the language options).

Anywho, its awesome. Super accurate dosing and it can easily be calibrated to fine tune the dose (per mL) if there is a lot of head or whatever (I didn’t need to). Theres no guess work which is a relief. I’ve had the Aqua Medic Reef Doser and had no luck with it, it always lost its siphon no matter what I tried, and was not consistent with dosing measurements and worst part was if the power went out I would need to manually reset it and all the params so it was stupid to rely on it.. NOT with this bad boy. I looked into the doser at BRS (I really like there stuff, have RODI, and reactors from there) but the price difference for 4 dosers was too close and given what both were offering I went with the Profilux 4 doser with built in controller.

I made a makeshift stand with some scraps until next week after finals when I have a few moments to get some wood and acrylic. Feel free to laugh at my handy work.. I know I did as I was taking these pics

 

fischkid2

good call on your part IMO - looks really good to me

Steve

 

GHL makes very nice dosing pumps

 

So it doses a little quick for me (60mL/minute) as i like to slowly add my 1st dose at about 1/3 that rate and my 2nd (calcium) dose also at 1/3 the rate. So i went into the dosing options setting where it gives you the ability to activate each pump 24 times a day. So i just told it to dose 20mL of the 1st part at 8:00 A.M., 8:03, 8:06 and the same thing for the 2nd part starting at 8:10 and following the same intervals.

I know this is going to be a good add as i am not around sometimes and my LR shows the marks of me not keeping up with the dosing, as one can see the coraline has faded away some. which kinda brings up another question. is it possible that my GFO reactor is keeping my coraline from more rapidly growing? my Calcium level is a little low (380) and so is my bio load (2 chromies, 1 clown, 1 hippo, 1, scotter, 1 butterfly, 1 wrass, avg length is about 3in.) so i know the coriline dont have a lot of waste to convert but i figure if i dose daily it will grow.

I think im also going to test the pH in the afternoon and at night for the next few days to see if/when the pH drops so i can punch in a time to dose some 1st part of the B-ionic to keep the pH more stable. any thoughts to if this may work or suggestions?

 

Coralline needs a certain amount of phosphorus but it generally gets it in the form of Calcium-phosphate or Magnesium-phosphate or Strontium-phosphate. Too much phosphorus actually inhibits calcification of coralline (and corals too) so it's highly unlikely that your GFO is stopping the growth. However, not having your Calcium and Magnesium (and Strontium) at NSW levels, can slow the growth.

 

Oh ok, thanks. i've been trying to get it up to 450 or even 400