calcium redundancy

[ari5736]

So many of the stories that I have heard of hard coral tanks crashing have to do with alk swings due to something getting messed up. I have an acro tank that has a calcium reactor that keeps alk steady.

I try to dump kalk into my reactor every so often to raise the ph, and it doesn't affect my kh at all, being that the demand of the tank if pretty high.

So my question is, does anyone know of a system that can back up a calcium reactor's supply of calcium to the tank, in case of some sort of failure, when kalk won't get the job done.

Asidre from all the stories of tanks crashing due to calcium deficiency, I just recently had my calcium reactor stop due to the regulator not being open enough, and thank God my kalk did not dip to low before I caught it.

The fact is I can see many places that the system can fail, anywhere from solenoid problems, leak or kink in tubing, CO2 running out when I am not near the tank for a couple of days, and on and on.

 

[Thairun]

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I have same situation here. Without knowing my tank had stocked for more than 140 hard coral. Mind you how they suck the calcium and KH. In addition I consistantly drip Sodium Bicarbonate and Calcium chloride every day, just to maintain kalk 6-7.5dKH (low due to dosing vodka) and ph 7.95-8.2
Kind of tired here monitoring the proper drip daily beside having 3 reactor for kalk , cal and mag.
Would like to see also any more ideas maintaining the 3 basic, especially KH where I had 3 occasion of stn'ing with kh relation.