Question on dosing and adjusting

[Rpc07]

I'm getting to the point that my weekly water changes are not keeping up with demand so I'm starting to dose. I'm using 2 part to bring my numbers up and kalk in my ato to maintain.

 

Tank is a Red Sea E170 (45 gallons) with mixed frags of zoas, lps, and sps

My numbers are

Ph 8.0-8.2

Cal 380

Alk 9.5

 

Should I continue to dose 2 part equally to bring up calcium? I don't want alk to sky rocket. And the kalk I'm using is low concentrate for now at 1/2 teaspoon per gallon.

 

Any help is appreciated.

[seabass]

Once you start dosing, you need to monitor and dose magnesium. Don't worry so much about balancing calcium and alkalinity. The goal is stability and keeping the parameters at a proper level. Here's a decent video on dosing:

 

[blizzardscout2]

That was a great video, thanks for sharing.

[mystersyster]

That was a great video, thanks for sharing.

That video is great. It really take the mystery out of dosing. =]