Randy Holmes Farley wrote the article.There is a link to the article in one of my earlier posts in this thread.In my case going to Kalk from a Ca Rx reduced the need for constant Mg dosing so it definitely has a boosting property with me ignoring how any specific data is interpreted.
I have switched back a few times(from Ca Rx to Kalk)for a short while and watched my Mg fall with two different medias with the Rx employed(TLF and ARM) and as anecdotal as this seems it is considered as fact to me.My interpretation of Randys article lends merit to this.
The article noted in your previous post, ie post 29 is from Reefkeeping Magazine not Reef Hobbysist Magazine. I have read the article you cited a number of times.It lends no weight or merit to your interpretation ;it directly contradicts it.
No disrespect but I completely disagree with your interpretation and have no idea how you got there:
This is from the articleby Randy Farely cited in your post 29:
"..What Else Does Limewater Do In An Aquarium? Reduce Magnesium
Despite old beliefs that using of limewater depletes magnesium, the truth is somewhat more complicated. As was shown above, magnesium is not dosed in typical settled limewater because it is insoluble; nor is it present in very high concentration even in undissolved lime. Craig Bingman showed thatprecipitation of magnesium carbonate and hydroxide in aquaria using limewater was unlikely to be significant. More likely, such depletion is simply the result of not delivering as much magnesium to the aquarium as is being “exported” during calcification.
In a previous article I used the data presented earlier in this article to develop models of how magnesium might be depleted from reef aquaria over the course of a year using limewater based on magnesium incorporation rates typical of corals and coralline algae. Table 8 shows some of the data generated.
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0.5% of tank volume[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
1280 [/SIZE][/FONT]</td> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
0.03[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
37[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
1243[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
1% of tank volume[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
1280[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
0.06[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
74[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
1206[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
2% of tank volume[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
1280[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
0.12[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
149[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> <td>[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]
1131[/SIZE][/FONT]</td> </tr> </tbody></table>
As expected, the magnesium depletion is significant. While this depletion may be mitigated in a number of ways (including water changes), it shows that aquarists using limewater should consider monitoring magnesium over long periods of time. The previous article also compared magnesium depletion via limewater to magnesium depletion using a variety of different calcium carbonate materials in CaCO[SIZE=-1]
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Randy has been very consistent about the fact that magnesium is not dosed with limewater in dozens if not hundreds of threads and in his articles.
It is not a matter of interpretation , it's just not possible to add magnesium from limewater .
You grow nice corals, so I'm confident you have adequate magnesium;however, any bump is not coming from limewater.
My original statement in post 38, a post supportive of your position on benefits of multiple approaches which you disagreed with is completely correct :
CACO3 reactors ........., may contribute impurities but do add some useful magnesium which limewater doesn't.
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