Anyone not dosing? Just waterchanges?

[ReEf BoSs]

Tested mg, alk and cal yesturday. ill keep testing to see the drop. If i have to manually dose a bit between water changes no biggie. I just want to set up a simple low maintance nano.

[Ryanerickson]

I did this with my rock flower tank before I tied it into my main system alk and mag was always low.

[FishyFishy!]

I dont dose in my "FOWLR"....which has tonnes of easier corals in it from my old reef tank. Didnt have the heart to sell them. Just a 40 gallon water change every 2 weeks. Been going for about 6 months and everything has been just fine.





I find as long as theres no harder SPS, they can tolerate the alk swings between water changes.

My SPS system would show white burnt tips in a week or less if I didnt dose.

[UltraLPS]

When I first began keeping corals I started off with frags primarily and got away with doing water changes for nearly a year (never even tested the water once). Once the frags had grown and my collection had increased, it literally became impossible to keep them healthy without dosing on top of water changes. I have a 200 gallon tank/refugium and if I turn my doser off after a water change, the alk and calcium drop significantly just a day after.

[Dearth]

I don't dose my tank I have a 95 gallon loaded with softies and all I do is 20% water changes every second or third week.

Also my tank is not setup to handle sps and made the desicion a long while ago just to do mushrooms, leathers and the like in my tank which is much easier to care for as well IMO