yeah, i havent had any issues with that yet and i have that reay heavy crushed coral substrate and not much of my cleanup crew really sifts the substrate unfortunatley.

but i think the clumping they were talking about is caused by a chemical reaction and idk if any cleanup crew could stop that

it says on the bottle if you dose more than the maximum dose reguarly it can basically turn your sand into one big clump, thats if you have aragonite or crushed coral sand i assume

Yeah. This is true. That is why all the "pros" use calcium reactors lol among several other pricey pieces of equipment. There's no better solution than dilution . So water changes are austin but like joe stated, you would kill yoursel trying to do water changes that often. I can go close to a month now with crazy heavy feeding and my param's stay fine - minus my alk-calc dropping out of "good growth" range. That's why I dose about 20-30ml of 2 part alk-calc about 4-5 days a week.

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Lol that's cause you havent had a tank in 2yrs!!!!!!

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 i didnt with the 55 and i dont plan on it with this tank as long as your doing proper water changes there isnt a need in dosing 

i never dosed it, i dont think i have ever dosed anything lol 

I usually make my own 2-part solutions and supplements.  All you need is calcium chloride (basically, ice melting flakes/pellets), baking soda and epsom salts (for magnesium supplementation).  You can also use pickling lime (from Walmart or grocery store), as a calcium supplement (e.g., kalkwasser).

Now that I only have soft corals, I haven't made the 2-part in a while, but I still add the pickling lime to keep the coraline algae growing nice and pink!

Here's a great link on how to make your own - plus, it will save you a lot of money in the long run:

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-02/rhf/index.php

yeah my calcium does get low i dont have a ton of corals but i do have a few sps and lps corals, i dont dose anything i cant test for.

You shouldn't dose calcium unless test kits say you need to. Good salt mix should have enough in it already. You'll only need to dose extra if you have a lot of hard corals that are using it up growing new skeleton.

Don't dose anything you don't measure.

Well I will be honest an say I havent been I didnt even know I could or should til the last meeting. Old Salty tested mine an said it was good though which was nice of him.

Not dosing at the moment but looking into it. But first can someone hit me with a reason as to why? I take it that unless I had a tank full of coral the demand for calcium isn't high enough to hurt anything??? Correct?

I use my kent jug with a doser on it.