What would you do? Again with the x@#^*! Dosing

[spawn]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

ok so lets see if I got this right. at 4ml/gal you were causing percipitation and now your down to 1.67/gal and tyour finding you Ca is dropping.

seams pretty simple.. the number you want is between 1.67 and 4.

so try bump up your Ca additive a bit, say 2.0/gal reduce testing to every second day while you dial it in. once a week is how often a known stable tank can wait.

I personaly don't like the home made dosing as I find the consistancy of it isn't the best, but some people like it and have good luck.

Steve

Yes that's it! percipitation? How many people do you know doing much more than 1.5ml per gal? Correct. Do you mean increase testing to every 2 days? Home made dosing?

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by spawn

How many people do you know doing much more than 1.5ml per gal?

hmm.. personaly none cuz I don't know anyone who doses there tanks, but I suspect quite a few would have had to if we dosed.

my old tank (90 gal) had a Ca reactor which was sized for a 500 gal tank, running full out, plus I used a kalk reactor for my make up water. go back 10 years ago when people did two part by hand, there were always problems with the precip. Randys two part was a new thing back then and lots of people were having problems with getting the stuff to make it up here with out it having a bunch of garbage in it.

Steve

[spawn]

I just caught my doser dosing alk 1st & then under a min later dosing ca.... it's set on the auto dosing schedule. I have no idea how to set it manually. I've never seen this happen before. WTF

[Myka]

Hmm..that's not good. I think it's time to email Profilux for some help.

[Aqua-Digital]

The ONLY way the doser will do this is if you have managed to get water onto the inner front board where the manual overide button connection ribbon cable sits.

easy to see - take the lid off, pop out the front board and you will see corrosion from salt water incursion. We had one last week, the client said the unit was above the fish tank, when we got it here you could have kept fish in the lower half of the unit It had clearly gone swimming, not saying yours is that catastophic but the issue was the same.

This is the kind of damage you see with water being allowed to get into electrical devices





I cant offer support here so please email me at sales@aqua-digital.com with the outcome either way.

Parts are available for self replacement if you have damaged it.