Ecotech Versa How to beginners guide: Dosing, Kalk, Calcium reactor, auto water change

Ecotech Versa How To: setup Dosing, Auto water change, Kalkwasser, trace elements, calcium reactor. Picking up a versa? Check it out via our sponsor links to support the channel bulkreefsupply.sjv.io/versa
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[@RogueAquariums]

Thanks for the how to video Deven. 😊 Much appreciated. The Versa is built well and I like the fact that it can be used for different functions.

[@ReefDudes]

My pleasure!

[@bobs1969]

Thanks for the video! Great information as always!!

[@ReefDudes]

Thanks Bob!

[@IMGbaugher]

Great video.

[@ReefDudes]

Thanks Greg!

[@HeftyReefs]

I have 2 versa pumps for water changes side by side not pushing/pulling water very far, when i watch the pumps one seems to be slightly turning faster then the other. Both calibrated. Am i being paranoid? Worried one is adding more then the other is pulling out.

[@euphylliamaster1814]

Is there a history feature? How much i dosed yesterday to be able to see the effect it had on the aquarium. Itd be a nice feature to just be able to see the dosing history for a week to compare against my kh directors results. Power outages will mess up copying and pasting todays schedule over that timeframe.

[@ronbegnaud8520]

Question for you, I'm interested in setting up a mangrove Paludarium with a tide cycle. My thought is to have a sump under the tank and use an Ecotech Versa pump to slowly remove water from the Paludarium over 6 hours, then refil at the same rate. Could this be done with a single pump? Can a single pump be set to cycle in opposite directions at different times?

[@ReefDudes]

You can manually run the pump backwards but I dont think you can schedule it to run backwards (atleast not yet)

[@joshrhea6380]

I have a 105 gallon mixed reef- dosing 25 ml Alk- 16 mls cal Daily evap 1 gallon on average. What would be the best way to start dosing Kalkwasser

[@MQReef]

On your recommendations, i got versa imported fro UK. Its drops for few seconds and then hold for a second and starts again. 18ml per min Ca Rx. It Pulling water from ca rx

[@ReefDudes]

Does it do it on the hour or at midnight ? I have seen that if it’s kinda re setting it self

[@lukefham7138]

If I want to dose continuously from 7 pm to 7 am, can the versa do that or for have to dose continuously for the whole day

[@TheTrevor40]

Thank you. I was wondering why my versa would not let me dose over 3L per day of kalk. Turns out I had the programming wrong.

[@ReefDudes]

Did you get if fixed up?!

[@TheTrevor40]

No, mine has a max rate of 1.98ml/min on all settings. Any idea why?

[@eugeneanderson24]

How loud are they when running at 300ml/min? Thinking about switching from DOS to these for AWC

[@ReefDudes]

You can hear them when all out but quieter than the dos. I spread mine over an extra hour so they run slower and stay super quiet :)

[@Botzz28]

Where can you get color coded dosing tubes from ?

[@ReefDudes]

I always rodi line, you can order a ton of diff Color’s

[@leopardgecko1999]

How do you set the Versa to only dose 2 times a week?

[@ReefDudes]

I don’t believe they have day of the week schedules. Jsut 24h. Why not break that dose up into smaller daily doses

[@jameswithers3066]

Hi excuse me if this is a dumb question. So I want to setup an automatic water change. 2 containers in the sump area one obviously adding saltwater and one removing tank water, when it stops pulling water from the display would it still create a siphon? Even though dosing has stopped? How do I fix this. Hopefully you understand what I'm saying. Thanks in advance.

[@ReefDudes]

The rollers pinch the tube and you should not have a siphon. Eventually it could happen if the tube is worn out but if you replace them once In a while you should be set.

[@jameswithers3066]

@@ReefDudes thanks for the reply

[@jameswithers3066]

@@ReefDudes thanks for the reply

[@hurrensreef4228]

Do you know if the Versa will ever be Wi-Fi enabled rather than Bluetooth? Cheers

[@ReefDudes]

Possibly :)

[@hurrensreef4228]

@@ReefDudes perfect I have Radions and MP40s so the future is looking good 👍 Ecotech stuff is great just lacking a bit of connectivity 🤣 My Versa is doing a solid job slowly drip feeding the tank Kalk thanks to your videos on Kalk I’ve now switched over to the Kalk side 😂

[@ReefDudes]

@@hurrensreef4228 Welcome to the kalk side! Connectivity should hopefully be fixed soon via firmware updates :)

[@hurrensreef4228]

@@ReefDudes I just can’t believe I didn’t start with Kalk it must be a Brit thing it just isn’t as popular here. Perfect bring on the new firmware. 👍

[@RogueAquariums]

I’m glad I made the jump to using Kalk. Hoping it will give my tank the benefits of using it.

[@Botzz28]

Is this the best doser on the market right now ?

[@ReefDudes]

It’s my go to pick. Can go from ultra precise dosing of trace elements. Continuous duty or even water changes

[@arturreef8117]

question lets say you doing 2 part with 2 units. can you do 2 dosing schedules, lets say less when the lights are off and more when lights are on, since alk gets consumed more during the day.

[@ReefDudes]

Yep sure can. Just add two diff points to schedule and set how much you want to dose over each period