ReefDose 4 Not Dosing Specified Volume (1 Viewer)

[jrounding]

Hello,

Has anyone experienced this with the ReefDose? It is telling me for the second day in a row that it hasn’t dosed my full volume of nopox. It’s supposed to dose 6 ml and it only dosed 5.02 ml according to the notification. I will have a look at it tonight, but thought I would see if anyone has had this issue first. Maybe it just needs to be recalibrated. I can’t find anything on this error on Red Sea’s website.

 

[soymilk]

Weird. Mines did the same thing recently. Then refused to dose anymore after that.

I had to delete the profile and start over and it’s been working ok since then

 

[jrounding]

Weird. Mines did the same thing recently. Then refused to dose anymore after that.

I had to delete the profile and start over and it’s been working ok since then

I will give that a shot this evening. Unfortunately I won’t know until tomorrow since it’s a daily dose. Until then back to the soul crushing work of using drawings to make these machinists happy. Lol!

 

[soymilk]

That’s the thing though, machinists are never happy.

 

[jrounding]

That’s the thing though, machinists are never happy.

My revision AG drawing confirms that is true. Lol!

 

[Reefahholic]

My friends setup:

 

[frankc]

My friends setup:

That's an impressive setup. I would never think to dose tin, especially after losing several and nearly losing several Acros to high levels of tin when my tank was new.

 

[foos]

My friends setup:

Are those power supplies on the left of the bottom pic? I'm assuming swapped out power bricks for centralized high efficiency power supply.

 

[Reefahholic]

Are those power supplies on the left of the bottom pic? I'm assuming swapped out power bricks for centralized high efficiency power supply.

Sure is. He cuts all the bricks off his equipment and wires directly to power supplies. He’s a lineman by trade and he hates all that clutter and the bricks. He’s always got a project going on.

 

[foos]

Neat. I have pondered doing something close to that. Thought about using a 48v LFP battery and buck converters to power everything and a high efficiency battery charger to keep the battery topped off. Thought is it would reduce clutter, waste, and put an active backup in place for all dc components.

 

[soymilk]

I kinda like the Kraken from coralvue that does kinda the same. It has 8 spots that has 24v and 4 spots for 12v.



if i can find some decent lights that run on 24v, this might be a gamechanger. that spot for a 12v battery is clutch

 

[soymilk]

what is going on with that kalkwasser reactor

 

[jrounding]

I like the idea that the hydros is a plug and play solution with no wiring or anything. That hydros stuff seems to be really nice.

 

[Reefahholic]

That's an impressive setup. I would never think to dose tin, especially after losing several and nearly losing several Acros to high levels of tin when my tank was new.

How high was it? Tin usually isn’t too bad, are you sure it was the tin. I’d never dose it unless it stayed undetected for a while. Usually has no problem making it in.

 

[Reefahholic]

what is going on with that kalkwasser reactor

He got sucked into the slurry world. Thinks 8.9 pH is Unicorn land.

 

[Reefahholic]

I like the idea that the hydros is a plug and play solution with no wiring or anything. That hydros stuff seems to be really nice.

I just setup an X4 last night. Gonna play with it for a little bit. Seems to be straight forward. Liking it so far. Possibilities are endless for some things.

 

[frankc]

How high was it? Tin usually isn’t too bad, are you sure it was the tin. I’d never dose it unless it stayed undetected for a while. Usually has no problem making it in.

It was 19 micrograms per liter - all the way on the red side in the Triton chart, so I just assumed that was the problem. Some water changes and Cuprisorb made things better.

 

[Reefahholic]

It was 19 micrograms per liter - all the way on the red side in the Triton chart, so I just assumed that was the problem. Some water changes and Cuprisorb made things better.

That’s getting a little elevated, but I’ve seen Tin over 100 ug/L with no Acropora casualties, and good growth. Typically after 30 ug/L I start worrying that something may possibly be corroding. However, new tanks have all kinds of elevated elements at first. I think some of the PVC cement or pipe elevates some of these elements along with other new equipment on startup. So if the system is new, don’t fret.

 

[frankc]

That’s getting a little elevated, but I’ve seen Tin over 100 ug/L with no Acropora casualties, and good growth. Typically after 30 ug/L I start worrying that something may possibly be corroding. However, new tanks have all kinds of elevated elements at first. I think some of the PVC cement or pipe elevates some of these elements along with other new equipment on startup. So if the system is new, don’t fret.

I also saw somewhere that the glass is floated on tin as the last step before putting the tank together, and they're supposed to put that side out, but sometimes make a mistake and put the tin side on the inside so you get elevated levels on startup. I could have had loses for some other reason, but that was the only standout on the Triton test.

 

[Cody]

My friends setup:

This beautiful setup versus one cat. Who wins?!