Is this possible?

Jeff,

What are your numbers, you happen to have kept a log?

I'd say both reasons -

It's mixed with ro water (BRS 2 Part)

Jeff - bite the bullet and get a calcium reactor.  You'll love it.  It was one of the biggest expenses on my last tank and I waited forever to get it.  But, once I did, there were no regrets!

Just use your dosing unit and keep things in line. I don't how many ML's are in a cup but I know that Sunny over on RC is dumping in 110ML of each solution a day.

When the alk and calcium are available, corals will suck it up way quick. I am up to about 15ML a day of each solution in my little 40 gallon to keep alk around 8 and calcium at 420.

I will throw it out there that your chalices are sucking up just as much if not more than your SPS. They build quite the skeleton under their flesh.

As far as a calcium reactor goes, I don't like them. Never used one, but I know I wouldn't want to deal with probes that need to be cleaned constantly and refilling media. I am sure they work great but I will just dump in my 2 part every day and be done with it.

When I set up my 120 =) I actually bought the calcium reactor before I even bought a skimmer I dont how people put up with manually dosing every day

You can also automate the dosing without a reactor.

IV Dosing Pump, daily dosing, mixing it in with your top off (maybe?), simple dripping from a bigger container?

Depends on your level of involvement.

Well jeffs dosing seems to right in line for the most part. Sonnys tanks is half the size of jeffs and he is doidng half of what jeff doses. So to jeffs original question, yes your tank is eating up that much calcium and alkalinity every day.

Thanks skyler. I actually googled everything after I posted but never came back to post my findings.

Jeff from what you told me on the phone your dosing around $66 a month which is $792 per year. A Ca Reactor is $612 per month and then only the reactor media is $15 a year on most tanks and then $10 for the Co2 refill so you are only spending $25 per year now on the same items you are dosing right now = saving of $767 per year. So you now know why pet stores says Ca Reactors a pain in the a** and need to be changed every day on the bubble count. Just like we talked about I can show you several tanks that you only need to change the bubble count depedning on how many  new corals you have or corals that you have taken out of your tank.

Edited by snailson - August 07 2010 at 7:09pm

bugzme wrote: LMAO! Ryan you going to take that? Hey Ryan will your post some pic's of your tank?

Lol it would be an insult if it was coming from someone other than skyler!

I am waiting on my new bulbs to get here and then I'm gonna do a full update with before and after pics. I ordered the kz new gen and superblue. ATI just came out with the purple plus and I'm trying to get one shipped to me. It should be very comparable to the fiji purple.