Dosing

Red Sea ReefDose 2

Specification

Manufacturer
Red Sea
Model
ReefDose 2
Purchase year
Not recorded
Category
Dosing
Status
In useread from live inventory

Overview

Not yet documented.

Why I chose it

Bought so fertilizer dosing would be identical every day and independent of whether anyone is home, a variable removed rather than managed.

What I've learned

  • Owning the hardware is not the same as having the automation. It is on the tank and has not been set up to drive dosing, so APT still goes in by hand and fertilization remains a variable rather than a constant.

Installation

Not yet documented.

Configuration

  • Configured and calibrated, both heads scheduled, but not dosing: the containers are empty and auto-dosing is off
  • 2Hr Aquarist APT dosed by hand in the meantime

Maintenance

Not yet documented.

Known limitations

Not yet documented. Absence here means nothing has been written down, not that there are none.

Current observations

  • Not in service. This is the largest single gap between what this site describes and what the tank does, and the one that most limits what the PAR work can claim.

What this item is doing now, as distinct from what has been learned over time.

Maintenance history

No service dates recorded yet. Scheduled replacement applies to consumables; this item is tracked by condition instead.

Related experiments

No experiments reference this item yet.

Related documentation

Would I buy it again?

Not yet documented.

Future upgrade considerations

  • Set it up and put dosing on a fixed daily schedule, the change that would most improve what this project can conclude.
  • Log dose volume as a time series alongside water chemistry.