Three dosing pumps? Four dosers? Five? Puh-lease. Unless you are rocking six or more uber expensive, super precise peristaltic dosing pumps to individually add every single bit of ions to your trendy reef tank, you are just a poseur. If you really want to be a baller don’t just go half-caudal fin, go balling to the wall with seven peristaltic dosing pumps and a little pipeline in your wallet that goes directly to the manufacturer of all the salty water you’ll have flying in from the European Union. As far as we’re concerned, balling is an extension of the two-part dosing method and until we see some results with balling that haven’t been achieved with more reliable, much simpler and less expensive methods, balling is an overcomplication of reef dosing for ballers which want to spend more time messing with their tank than actually enjoying the life within. What we don’t get is that if you are such an ionic control freak and you have to know exactly what is going into your tank, why don’t you just order the chemicals from a scientific supply catalog? While you are at it you might as well get four more dosing pumps; three dosers so you can ball your vodka, sugar and vinegar separately and one more so your reef can have the ultimate status symbol by topping off with Bling H2o. By the way, have you seen the new Fauna Marin Balling Salts?
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From Fauna Marin: “Please note also the accompanying safety and store the chemicals and solutions so that in no case children or pets to the products arrive.
Check before every use and the need to overdose on you no chemicals.
Although Balling method is a very gentle, you can overdose on this, and the coral to die off. ”
You’d think they could afford an editor.
Balling is for ballbags!
Did I just say that?
I don’t completely understand the need to dose 5-7 additives but I also don’t understand why one would bash the method while promoting the products…
Some people like to keep it simple while others like to dose Zeo products daily. Some need name brand corals while others just want what looks nice. Some need super rare fish while others are happy with what the Bread and butter LFS have to offer. The great thing is there is no wrong way.
Trust the americans to want to dumb down calcium additives to just two parts.
JEZ
I use two dosers to dose seven Seachem products. I tested seriously for a week or two to get down the timing. Now things are as solid and easy as can be. So, yes, it simplifies and stabilizes. I do less testing and less worrying. Now I get to enjoy without sweating the levels.
Many people in Europe due purchase the pure chemicals in bulk. In fact most serious Ballers that I know of due just that, group buys by the pallet! In this way its actually fairly economical. Once you consider the cost of a top end calcium reactor and kalkwasser stirrer, the cost of a set of dosing pumps is not significantly more expensive.
And 2 part is not the same thing as balling. The basics idea yes but its all different from there.
leave it to the Euros to harp on the US over such a petty thing like 2 part vs 6 part
To each their own *but* you don’t have to be such a hater!
FWIW many people in the US buy in bulk as well. Guess we’re more like then you wish to think about
Jim, you were supposed to call me at work. Too busy dosing, eh!!!????
Rather curious that the site chooses to nearly ridicule this methode whilst promoting Fauna Marin & balling methode in this post and others. As an attempt at sarcasm, it’s rather poor. I assumed that this site authours lack experience with these productes? Try remain a bit more objective otherwise, it does come off a bit amateur & snide. Cheers, mates.