Dosing nano tanks?

[BioCube14]

I was wondering is dosing only to keep your calcium and alk up? Do I need to dose a small tank 14 gal if i do weekly water changes?? also wondering about PH and additives

[reeferRob]

I was wondering is dosing only to keep your calcium and alk up? Do I need to dose a small tank 14 gal if i do weekly water changes?? also wondering about PH and additives


Well dosing will do whatever you are dosing is designed to do. Chances are if you are not keeping a lot of sps, a good regimen of water changes may suffice. But the only way to know is to TEST!! And never dose anything that you are not testing for. Size of the tank has little to do with water quality

[BioCube14]

No sps mostly LPS soft type stuff

[Kristy]

With only LPS I would highly doubt that you are depleting the elements enough to need to dose. Every time you do a water change it naturally replenishes and rebalances, so to speak.

Do you test for anything? That's really the only way to say for sure, but I'd be very surprised if a system that gets a substantial weekly water change gets significantly depleted unless you had a bunch of SPS in it.

[Beretta]

Depending on your salt, filtration, tank inhabitants, etc., it's hard to tell whether you need to dose without testing. Your best bet would be to test your tank once a day between water changes, and chart your results. If your parameters are dropping below acceptable levels, you probably need to dose.

[Bill S]

My daughter's nano never gets tested - and I'm a testing freak. It just gets a 5 gallon water change every few weeks (it's a 12g, that really holds about 8 gallons).