HOWTO: Destroy everything you work so hard for

[crumbletop]

Chuck can clarify, but slurry is typically mixing up kalkwasser where the powder doesn't dissolve all the way (it forms kind-of a slurry). If his ATO ran, it would have dumped some very high pH stuff into the tank, which caused that cloud of stuff in the pic. So yes, it was an overdose.

 

[ct_vol]

Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry
When I take you out in the surrey
When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top

Sorry... I know you said slurry, but it made me think of Oklahoma...



Glad everything is doing well for you ocd...

 

[desara3]

WOW you guys are way ahead of me .!!!I have never done a slurry!

 

[NeveSSL]

More info can be found here, desara:

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rhf/index.php#13

There is a lot more info out there as well. Personally, I use a kalk reactor instead of dosing slurry. This allows kalkwasser to be added to my system when my autotopoff... well, tops off.

Brandon

 

[ocd_mariner]

Thats the same thing I do brandon. I have a geo reactor in which it recommends you mix up enough kalk in a bit of ro/di water (slurry) and dump it in the top of the reactor. The kalk mixes and settles, and the topoff runs water through the reactor into the tank. Its the same idea as just dumping kalk into a reactor. So I mix up and dump in a months worth of kalk. It usually settles straight to the bottom.

If the topoff turns on while you add kalk, slurry, or however you do it, things go south. Bad bad timing.

 

[NeveSSL]

Oh, ok, Chuck. That makes sense.

I usually just disable my top off while I'm "re-kalking". But my output is on the lid, anyway, so when I have the lid off it can't top off anything... heh...

Brandon

 

[ocd_mariner]

Yep. I usually kill the switch as well. I think in the future, Im going to rekalk by taking the whole of the lid off, and just dumping the powder, so there is no way for it to run. I cant take seeing the tank like that again without getting an ulcer.

 

[NeveSSL]

Thats the way I do it, but MAN! Watch out for the fine lime powder that comes up after dumping! That crap is NOT good for your throat!

Brandon