got ethical husbandry?

I dont test my water parameters:(

before dossers came down in price and availability years ago, it was fairly common to gravity drip from a two liter bottle or gallon jug each night. It was scary trusting the knot tied in the airline tubing was done well enough to have a nice slow drip. Now i enjoy having a kalk reactor coupled with weekly water change.

old school budget friendly lol (from google image):
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Same, I used to use this IV bag adjacent thing with a rolling pinch clamp. It always clogged up and the tubing went rigid.
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Peristaltic pumps are so much better.
 
I am curious @JVU -how much you were using at the time of your tank crash (ml/gal) -right now I am using the prescribed starting dose but I have never had to increase it-yet-still starting to pack in more acros and other sps.
 

Thanks-good to know that your aquarium recovered from that. I do agree that changing from one dosing schematic to AFR could trigger some issues. I will def keep an eye out if consumption needs to increase. For now -won’t argue with what works.
 
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I want to thank everyone , for your input.

I ended up buying
Hanna alkalinity, phosphate, nitrate, salinity kit

Salifert calcium, mag test

For future dosing I bought a redsea dosing pump, I'm looking
To dose both all for reef and kalkwasser
 
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