raising PH without Kalk...

[FragMaster]

Nope. Expect it. Hair algae, and brown diatomatcious algae will happen to some degree no matter what you do.
Its just a natural occurance in a SW system when it happends on small scale.

If your having BIG problems with it I would test for phosphates in the tank water, and test for phosphates, and TDS in my RO water if you use it.
Cut down on your lighting cycle by couple hours each day, and be careful not to over feed.
Aside form keeping up with water changes, and having the correct amount of clean up critters, and filtration thats all you can do.

 

[jsteel]

I think what I'm going to do is add the kalk, hope that it helps with any amount of phosphate that is floating around and be diligent about cleaning the glass and parts of the brown algae in hopes that if I keep up with it every day I'll be giving the phos. reactor and the macro maximum chance of picking up as much as is possible.

By the way, this is my first 20+ thread. they usually die around 5-6.
I'm so proud.

 

[fishaddict]

enough LR should keep the pH right about 8.2