Once relegated to very niche applications, aquarium dosing pumps have become a mainstay for maintaining proper mineral balance in a reef tank. Dosing pumps used to be very expensive but there’s been so many new dosers released by aquarium manufacturers in recent years that there’s now an option for every price point with a wide range of features to match.
Some dosing pumps are very expensive with over the top functionality that many reefers will likely never use, but there’s also some very cheap offerings with dubious reliability that can pose a risk to the stability of your aquarium chemistry and the safety of your reef inhabitants. We use a wide range of dosing pumps at the Reef Builders Studio from the most basic to the most advanced but at the end of the day, all we need them to do is可靠地根据需要剂量的添加剂的精确体积以保持稳定的钙，碱度新万博登录网址和镁。
我们想与您分享我们的一些不同的给药设置，这些设置使用不同的泵，不同的给药集装箱，并为如何使用计量泵提供了最佳实践来赋予一些提示和技巧，无论您想要实现什么。manbetx2.0ios下载This video of our ‘Good, Better, & Best’ dosing setups was a quick overview but we want to highlight a few things that we didn’t mention such as the importance of placing the dosing containers at or below the same level as the sump to prevent siphoning.
We’ve mentioned it before but it bares repeating that we use regular old food coloring to help us distinguish between our bulk calcium, buffer, and magnesium and of course it doesn’t hurt the aquarium corals. One last tip is not chase your aquarium chemistry with constant back and forth adjustments of the dosing pump programming – we like to stick with a given schedule and use manual dosing to keep the levels in line, and only once certain trends are clearly identified over several weeks will we change the programming of the dosing pumps.
好的——Johnlen & Red Sea Jugs (~$250)
Our ‘good’ dosing setup consists of the very basic约翰伦加药泵manbetx2.0ios下载和红海添加剂的一加仑水壶。新万博登录网址This entry level dosing pump may not have any wireless programming but that makes it dead simple to program with the on-screen numeric display, and having multiple single pumps adds a certain level of redundancy for replacing, although we’ve never had a problem in our years of using them. This dosing setup uses no dedicated dosing pumps as instead we leverage the clear window of the Red Sea one gallon jugs which makes it easy to see the remaining additive levels.
Better – Ekoral Doser & Arka Bottles (~$500)
这eKoral doser与Johnlen计量泵的直径相反，因为它没有按钮，而不是依赖manbetx2.0ios下载onlyon the wireless connectivity and smartphone app for programming and calibration. The eKoral app is much easier to use for calibration, set time points, and it can work in tandem with the eKoral controller so that you can have dynamic dosing based on certain water parameters, and you can tell the app the volume of your dosing bottles in order to receive alerts when are approaching empty. The dosing containers on this setup are the ARKA dosing bottles that came with theARKA doserbut we’re not sure if they are available separately.
Best – Ecotech Versa & Advanced Acrylics Dosing Container ($1000)
这是使用4包的线路定量给定量设置的顶部Ecotech Marine Versa dosing pumps采用先进丙烯酸类的定制加药箱。我们对Versa计量泵的长度写成，特别是其连续给药模式和超精密的流体计量，因为定manbetx2.0ios下载制的煎饼电机和行星齿轮。这种泵可以将添加剂的量滴加，一直到大量的水变化目的，所有易于控制和编程的使用M新万博登录网址obius应用程序。给药容器来自先进的丙烯酸酯is beyond overkill for this purpose but it holds a very large volume with three dedicated chambers that are built like a Sherman Tank.
manbetx2.0ios下载用于礁石水族馆的给药泵比他们曾经更好，你不必打破银行，但你也不应该感到舒适，有100美元，4通道给出的带有Shifty Electronics的装备。我们曾经用过这些廉价的剂量，但经历了非常不准确的给药，甚至一旦有一些渠道即可只是开始给药，永不停止。我们在工作室使用的这些好的，更好，更好的给药设置都有广泛的价格积分，但在一天结束时，我们只需要他们可以可靠地完成一件事，你的选择应该反映一些您想要沿途杠杆的其他功能和功能。
