Calcium,Alk.,and Mag. Replacement

[reefrubble]

Thanks clkwrk, I would like to read that thread. Ted

 

[antonsemrad]

me too!!!

 

[NuclearReefs]

I use two little fishes Kalk on a aqualifter pump thats set to go off and on every 15 minutes begining 2 hours before photoperiod goes off.. I have a airline valve and the drip end going into my tank.. If I didnt use the valve it would pump 3.5 gallons an hour into my tank . So the 15 minute interval full blast is .875 of a gallon per 15 minutes .. dripping im maybe getting 1/10 of that. My tank evaporates about 2.5 gallons a day due to halides and fans. Never goes over 79 degrees.

ph gets as high as 8.4 during the day
never drops below 8.1 at night

I use Kents Magnesium and dose twice a week with it.. The instructions say once a week,, but i cut in half and do twice a week.

I used Mrs Wages once before too and the first batch was AOK.. the second was high in PO4 ( like 1.0ppm) so I gave it to a friend who was trying new things with a planted freshwater tank....

My CA Stays around 470-490
Mag is like 1280
Dkh sticks at 11 and im happy with those numbers....

nathan

 

[reefrubble]

Thanks Nathan, I looked at your photos,and I must say you have some very beautiful SPSs there. Is it the Coffee with the Kalkwasser ? Ted

 

[NuclearReefs]

Thanks Ted,, those are some old pics.. Here is a recent score I got and Im looking forward to it growing out .. Should turn into a real jewel

 

[reefrubble]

Wow good score Nathan. Put me in line if you ever decide to frag any of your lovely pieces. Are all those pics taken under 65Ks ?

 

[NuclearReefs]

under 10K XM 250 watt with t5 03's

 

[reefrubble]

Thanks Nathan, You have some super nice SPSs there. Ted

 

[IndyReefMan]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7983849#post7983849 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefrubble
IndyReefMan,With the calcium reactor,I can't keep my ph out of the basement.

The CO2 that gets injected could be causing that. Have you tried "balancing" it out by dripping Kalk? How do you top-off for evaporation? Do you do it manually? You might try dripping Kalk for your top-off water. The high pH could help balance out the drop caused by the CO2. That is what Sprung recommended in vol.3.

 

[reefrubble]

IndyReefMan, I top off with a float switch ,and a pump. My top off storage unit is 50 gal. I just some kalk today to mix with my top off water.

 

[Biscutz]

I need to do the same thing Ted, like we talked about earlier, I really hate lifting a bucket to my sump every day

 

[reefrubble]

How far away from your tank would you have to store your make up water? you can get a Reef Filler pump that will pump 200 feet in any direction.

 

[Biscutz]

The problem is the tank is on an outside wall pretty far away from my garage. I thinking of drilling a hole through the outside wall and leaving the water container outside. The problem is talking my wife into letting my drill through our dining room wall in our new house .

Ian

 

[Tritonian]

I use an Aquamedic Kalkstirrer and a auto topoff pump. I don't have a Ca Reactor for the same reasons you started this thread. I want to do the whole dosing pump method with my own chemical supplements.

You could leave them to automatically dose and up your params as needed. Including trace, strontium and iodine. Then have a week holiday-come home and everything is as you left it. I know cuz I stress when I'm not in front of my tank and go away for just a weekend, let alone a week. I just like the idea of adjusting params rather than relying on a reactor. But everyone is different, some will say Ca Reactor all the way and others, dosing pumps.

I'm also gonna add a fuge to help stabilize my PH. I recently went from a 14KH with 500Ca, it dropped over 2 weeks after I stopped doing my daily KH dosing. Now its at 7KH and 360Ca.
The battle starts again.

 

[reefrubble]

Ian, your only talking a quarter inch hole. I don't think,but it mite be your garage is over two hundred feet from your tank. If not you could run a line through your attic ,and fish it down inside the wall behind the tank. Ted

 

[Biscutz]

Ted,

I have a two story house, so fishing it down the wall will be pretty tricky. That's why I was thinking about the outside wall. I could probably fish it all the way around the outside of my house, underground, to my garage. Do you think that would be a problem?

Ian

 

[reefrubble]

I can't see why that would be a problem. How many feet would you have to run ? Ted

 

[Biscutz]

It's probably about 100' or so.

Ian

 

[reefrubble]

That should work ok. Ted