Softy keepers

[jddaniel]

I am trying to get opinions on setups that keep mostly soft corals, zoanthids, etc. What type of Alk/Ca supplementation do you use and on what size system.
I am debating a Ca Reactor and a Kalk reactor for my 100 gallon softy dominate reef. I have been dosing with kalk jugs over the past couple years and would like a more automated system to keep the Alk levels more stable than they have been. All opinions welcome!

 

[tleilaxu]

I use B-Ionic and I still have the same jugs as when I started to dose. I thought it was 5yrs ago but in thinking about it was more like 4yrs. I should say that when I did have sps's in there I was dosing way more, now it's all softies/lps's and I dose about every 2wks.
It's cost efficient and easy.

 

[know-it-all]

when I only had softies, weekly water changes were all I needed
to keep my CA levels up

As soon as I added some LPS, I needed to dose some CA
but not much

When I added SPS, I needed the CA reactor

 

[jddaniel]

I currently dose all top-off with kalk which is approx 2 gal per day and I cannot keep up with the Alk. Calcium levels are adjusted every 2 weeks with my water change. I've used B-ionic in the past with Kalk as well. It was tedious dosing every day to keep the levels up and was fairly expensive with the amount I was dosing. Keep the ideas coming in, the more ideas the better!