looking for Lime in all the wrong places
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GTR
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I dose 5 gpd of limewater year round plus pure water for top off based on need. That way I can set and forget both the limewater rate and the CO2 Ca reactor and not have to make changes based on the weather and evaporation. If you keep the bag closed up the lime will last a long time. I work out of a 2 gallon bucket.
I'm on my second bag from Marks previous load. I had some major algae issues and I was able to rule out the limewater as the source.
SteveU
I'm on my second bag from Marks previous load. I had some major algae issues and I was able to rule out the limewater as the source.
SteveU
Captain Quirk
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7631027#post7631027 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Charles99
is it 2 tablespoons per gallon of total water volume of system or per gallon of top-off??
With the group buy just a few months back, there should be plenty of reefers w/ the stuff.
(sshh... I have 4- 50lb bags stashed in my garage).
Yeah. I know! And you're not SHARING!
Don't you remember what Hedley LaMar said?
"Gum? Did you bring enough for EVERYBODY?!"
LOL
gtrestoration, when you say you were able to rule out the limewater as the source, does that mean that the limewater did not cause the algae problem?
"I was able to rule out the limewater as the source."
could be read as:
1. rule out that the limewater is the source
2. rule out other variables and determined that the limewater is the source.
I know literally, 1 is more accurate, but not sure if you meant 2.
"I was able to rule out the limewater as the source."
could be read as:
1. rule out that the limewater is the source
2. rule out other variables and determined that the limewater is the source.
I know literally, 1 is more accurate, but not sure if you meant 2.
GTR
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I stopped the limewater for about two months and changed nothing else.
My source water at my shop is high in silicates, iron and phosphate. Chlorine also runs about max allowed all the time. My home water company usually has less chlorine than required by law and they have not failed a Bacteria test in forever just the chlorine test. I moved my system from the house to my shop and didn't monitor the RO/DI since I pretty much knew what to expect. Wrong choice, I fried two RO membranes with spent carbon blocks and would go through DI in <60g. Once I replaced the membranes and nuked the tanks with Maracyn to kill off the green slime everything went back to normal.
Personally, in retrospect, I don't see how limewater could add anything to the system to cause an algae outbreak. The reactions happening in your limewater should bind with any PO4 present in the lime as an immpurity as well as most (if not all) still in the freshwater added to it. This will all be settled at the bottom of your container. It takes a very low pH to break those bonds and if that's happening I suspect po4 will be the smallest of your worries.
SteveU
My source water at my shop is high in silicates, iron and phosphate. Chlorine also runs about max allowed all the time. My home water company usually has less chlorine than required by law and they have not failed a Bacteria test in forever just the chlorine test. I moved my system from the house to my shop and didn't monitor the RO/DI since I pretty much knew what to expect. Wrong choice, I fried two RO membranes with spent carbon blocks and would go through DI in <60g. Once I replaced the membranes and nuked the tanks with Maracyn to kill off the green slime everything went back to normal.
Personally, in retrospect, I don't see how limewater could add anything to the system to cause an algae outbreak. The reactions happening in your limewater should bind with any PO4 present in the lime as an immpurity as well as most (if not all) still in the freshwater added to it. This will all be settled at the bottom of your container. It takes a very low pH to break those bonds and if that's happening I suspect po4 will be the smallest of your worries.
SteveU
Charles99
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Setting up a 240g next week. So I planned ahead. (Just like w/ the carbon group buy).
I just moved up to Hesperia in April and have not set foot into a LFS since then (because there aren't any up here...lol). I was spoiled when I lived in Alta Loma w/ fragfarmer, Total Tropical, Jans, etc.
Don't you remember what Sherrif Bart said?
"To tell the family secret, my family was Dutch?"
hahahahahaha!!! Now you have that movie planted in my head, and I will HAVE to watch it tonight.
I posted in the thread during the sale if anyone out in the IE needed some. I even posted in the inlandreefs site. I had the Element ready to go and everything..lol.
Someone already contacted me about buying off 25-50lbs. How much do you need? I can maybe split a bag evenly.
LMK.
golfish
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7631027#post7631027 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Charles99
is it 2 tablespoons per gallon of total water volume of system or per gallon of top-off??
With the group buy just a few months back, there should be plenty of reefers w/ the stuff.
(sshh... I have 4- 50lb bags stashed in my garage).
Charles, Its been while since I've used a dripper, I'd say 1-2 Tbs per 5 gals RO\DI water should do the trick.
There should be lots of this stuff around. I'll probably do another pallet next year.
