Anyone drip Kalkwasser?

[tmz]

If I do a direct feed from my r/o unit to a kalk reactor and then to the sump,should I fret about possible failure of the in sump float valve in the open position and a consequent overdose.?Right now I use a 5 gallon buckett per night dripped K water for top off not a difficult chore but would like to automate it for when I may be away.

 

[Aquaman]

I use kalkwasser in my top off water, I have a 30 gallon bin and a float valve to my sump, every time I fill the resevour I mix the kalkwasser then it drips as water evaps out of the tank. I also have a calcium reactor that I use.

 

[Pacific Reefs]

A lot of good posts here. I had no idea that so many people were adding kalkwasser even with calcium reactors and other methods. I have mostly LPS right now so I will try to just drip Kalk. When I add more calcium demanding sps I will supplement Ca by another method.

Aquaman-- your homepage link is a nice website. I couldnt enlarge the 120g anemone tank pics though....would like to see those.

 

[Sk8r]

My original topoff system was a 75.00 autotopoff.com dual float switch with LED unit & plug, which powers a maxijet 1200 in a 7g ro/di bold salt bucket with a lid [a check valve on line], and that's it.

Now I use the same rig in a 32g Brute trashcan of ro/di with a checkvalve going up to my kalk reactor and on to the tank: nothing has changed but splicing the reactor into the line, and so far, even with crud and snails, the autotopoff.com dual float has never failed or glitched: the float switch part is internally contained so snails can't get at it.

Kalk's pretty forgiving: like a lot of other people, I was a little antsy about its safety to start with, but in my first week, I drenched myself in it [laundry job], drowned my basement floor in it [don't do that], and shot milkwhite [raw, undiluted] kalk straight into my sps/lps tank---nothing even flinched. I don't ever recommend you do that. [What goes in the tank is supposed to be the mildly filmy stuff, not the white solution at the bottom of the reactor.] But there are far worse things in this hobby to have a small oops! with.