Auto dosing schedule?

[da5speed]

Recently purchased an auto dosing with 4 pumps. Planning on using it for esv alk and calcium. Also will be dosing potassium nitrate. Is there a recommended time during the day to dose any of these products. Or should it just be broken up over 24 hours.
Still have to do my calculations. Tank is almost 9 months old with mix of lps and sps.
Also any recommendations what I should be looking into since I have a extra pump. Figured I?d save open for now or maybe use it for magnesium if the levels drop.

 

[jd371]

I just spread it out over a 24hr period. Just make sure that the Ca and Alk aren't dosed within minutes of each other, I would wait at least 30 min, mine is set for an hour between doses. I have a 4 pump also and only been using it for Alk and Ca, but recently I switched to once a month water changes and now have to dose some Mg so it's stable until the next water change.

 

[Zach Franck]

I try to do mine while the lights are off, in order to offset the pH drop that I get at night. I dose some of my 2-part at like 1am, 3am, 5am, 7am, and then sporadically throughout the day. It obviously depends on how much you are dosing at each time - which depends on livestock load, growth rates, size of tank, type of salt, etc.

I used to get a large pH swing at night, but I now go from 8.2 during the day to 8.1 in the morning. A pH monitor helps achieve some of this.

 

[jmc1024]

I just spread it out over a 24hr period. Just make sure that the Ca and Alk aren't dosed within minutes of each other, I would wait at least 30 min, mine is set for an hour between doses..

I do exactly the same!

 

[pecan2phat]

I dose Ca over a 10 hour period during the day and the Alk reversed over 10 hours during the night.
No specific reason why but mainly because total dosage was easily divided by ten, Lol.