Great minds please come together

Hmmmm, I would reconsider whether or not this tank needs dosing.

Kind of how this has a overflow cover.

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Mark Peterson wrote: First I want to congratulate you for coming here first. Your experience with the Kessil was a lesson well learned. So, you are dosing twice a day. Please don't take offense, but in my opinion that's crazy! I have maintenance accounts where I dose only every two weeks and some only monthly. Even with my 300 gal coral farm, where I did my best to maximize growth/profit, I was only dosing about once or twice a week. I believe some hobbyists make this hobby more work than it needs to be and then they quickly burn out. Rather than thinking that the solution is more equipment and that the job is to throw money at the tank, why not learn how to help the tank do its own dosing, in between weekly manual dosing. Yes, a well set up tank can dose itself to a certain extent. All it takes is some knowledge and some one time tank modification to take advantage of this bio-chemical benefit. In my experience, only Alk and Ca need to be dosed on a regular basis and mostly just Alk because that is the component that can't be overdosed. Ca can be overdosed with no ill effect. Mg can be left alone for months and then dosed heavily. Contrary to what novice hobbyists might say and manufacturers might claim, dosing the other bottles of stuff found on store shelves these days will be just fine if done only once in a while. Along that line, perhaps this helps illuminate why a three or four chemical doser is quite unnecessary. In my experience, just because it's available for sale does not mean it's necessary. Learning these things will save $100's and help make a wife happy. Aloha, Mark   P.S. I realize that using current technology is fun and can be very helpful. Yes, many dosers have their own electronic control. The doser unit is typically small enough to fit under the counter and the bottles could be placed in the cabinet with lines run up through small holes.Â

I would love to learn how to make my tank dose itself!

Please elaborate a little please? Next time your in Ogden you should swing by again. I want to learn.

Here are some photos.   Let me know what else information may be needed.

To answer your questions

No there is no controller. I was under the impression that some dosers had controllers built in.

Also hole in the floor would be great! But my wife would not go for it.

As you can see I have some room to mount some items to the back of the island and under the granite but I have to keep it to where it looks good and the island remains functional.

I'm anxiously waiting to hear some ideas.

I'll post some pics tomorrow but I need some ideas on how to mount a doser, containers and everything ran to my edge that sits on my kitchen island.

I'm dosing too much by hand now and want to automate this so it's simple and something I don't have to remember to do and so it can be more consistent.

Here are the rules.

1. It has to be clean, professionally looking. Hidden out of the way and not interfere with the use of the island and be kept up high enough so our bulldogs can't destroy it. This is #1 to equal a happy wife.

2. Happy wife

3. Happy wife

It's got to be neat and clean so she will let me do it.

I'll post pics tomorrow but please start thinking.

I'm dosing 1.5ml of calcium and magnesium daily and 5ml of alk. Daily. 2.5 at night and 2.5 in the morning.

Would like a 4 channel to use one for top off.

Thanks in advance