SKBok, it was going to be FOWLR but I couldn't resist so I've decided to go full blown reef. I had to dig deep into my pocket and some savings but it's what I really want. As of now, my calcium is a steady 300 and I have 3 frags: green striped mushroom, xenia, and yellow velvet finger acropora. I dosed a liter of RO water mixed with 1/2 teaspoon of kalk (as recommended on the kalk bottle) over about a 12 hour span and the calcium did not budge. Still 300.
Calcium Reactor $$$
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If you have higher CA consumption, a dosing pump should make your life much easier. Dosing pump dispenses liquid anywhere from 150 to 300 times a day into your sump. The automated multiple small quantity doses Keeps ph off-balances to the minimum. Dosing pumps can also be used to dose a variety of liquids normally used in aquarium maintenances too.
hi.
How much kalk has you been dripping? You may want to think about kalk reactor, which is cheaper than calcium reactor to setup, but more expensive to run long term...
Dosing pump can have a large range of volume dosage. They can dose anywhere from 1 rotation per day (`1ml) to running continuously (many gallons).
How much kalk has you been dripping? You may want to think about kalk reactor, which is cheaper than calcium reactor to setup, but more expensive to run long term...
Dosing pump can have a large range of volume dosage. They can dose anywhere from 1 rotation per day (`1ml) to running continuously (many gallons).
300 is big.. what I would do is..IcantTHINKofONE":1f118u1n said:
add b-ionic daily and dose KW like this http://home.pacbell.net/kylesr/invert.html till you can afford a ca reactor. If your Ca load isn't too high you'll be able to get away with these for a few months
You could use the 55 and kalk if you seal it from the air. Then the kalk will not come into contact with co2 and precipate out. Basically, make it a giant neilson reactor. You could actually seal the top, or cut a piece of styrofoam to fit. Someone else on this board does it with the styro, I am not sure who.
You would also want a small powerhead on a timer to mix the kalk from time to time.
RR
You would also want a small powerhead on a timer to mix the kalk from time to time.
RR
I would vote for the Nielsen or kalk reactor as well. I have one and love it, add new kalk once a month and fill up the RO/DI resivoir twice a month. Really helps cut down on the amount of maintenance. It is also a fairly inexpensive and easy to accomplish DIY project. If you end up with lots of stonies though, you may find as others have that a kalk or calcium reactor alone is not sufficient to keep up with the calcium demands and you end up using both. But that would be down the road and afford you time to save up for a Ca reactor.
OK I got myself one of those water cooler water bottles like the one in the picture. By the way, I'm talking about the DIY thing at http://home.pacbell.net/kylesr/invert.html. But what I don't understand it how will the nipple trap unmixed kalk? Does it mean that the powder will settle at the bottom (in the neck) of the bottle? Also, what does he/she mean at the end of the directions about make up water only when the sump level is lower than the ball valve? Is the line sposed to be submerged? I thought this was a dripper type of thing and the ball valve controls the drip. Thanx for the help and sorry for the ignorance/confusion.
Have you ever seen the cat water pan where they put a inverted soda bottle? As water in the shallow pan get consumed, a gap will be there where the end of the soda bottle meets the water surface. Air will travel up the soda bottle and push water down until there is no more gap.
His water bottle thing works the same concept.
The nipple does not trap undissolved kalk, however, undissolved kalk powder will settle at the lowest point of the bottle as the bottle is inverted. Kalk will settle around the raised PVC nipple so the undissolved powder does not get drained into the sump.
His water bottle thing works the same concept.
The nipple does not trap undissolved kalk, however, undissolved kalk powder will settle at the lowest point of the bottle as the bottle is inverted. Kalk will settle around the raised PVC nipple so the undissolved powder does not get drained into the sump.
MyReef CR-4: $215
Mag2, Minijet 660: $45
5# CO2 Bottle from any welding supply: $60
Regulator: $50
Needlevalve: $20
50# bulk bag of ARM enough to last you 1-2 years: $60
$450
Huh, yeah I guess after shipping it really is about $500.
Still, if you have a large calium hungry tank that's a great deal in my book.
Mag2, Minijet 660: $45
5# CO2 Bottle from any welding supply: $60
Regulator: $50
Needlevalve: $20
50# bulk bag of ARM enough to last you 1-2 years: $60
$450
Huh, yeah I guess after shipping it really is about $500.
Still, if you have a large calium hungry tank that's a great deal in my book.
greenbud, at this point, I couldn't even pay for the regulator. Need more important things like more live rock and more lights b4 i save up for a reactor. And dan I don't have a cat and have no idea what you're talking about lol. Thanx for trying tho. I'm still confused about how it works (drip or some other way).
Since I do not understand the concept of the ball valve in the water method or whatever it is, I was thinking, couldn't I just use some airline tubing and tie a knot in it to drip at the rate I want it to? That's what I do to drip/acclimate fish.
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