dosing elements in kalkwash or sump???

[ticker]

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am i expose to adding all the dosing (iodine, strontium & molybdenum, coral-vital, liquid calcuim,and micro-vert) to the 5 gal. bucket that has my kalkwash in it that is going thew a leter meter, or are there ones that sould be going in my sump on the dose day and not in the kalkwashbucket?? asking this 'cause as the bucket gets low of kalkwash at the end of the week i'm still putting in the these doses, and the bucket is not so deluted with kalkwash so i'm worried i'm not doing it right, as in adding these doses to where they need to be put in at...

if someone could help me with this, thanks. and all keep saying not to dose what you don't test for, but i'm going to see about testing for what i'm using, thanks, rick.

 

[ufans]

Kalkwasser should really be dosed seperate from everything else. And, you should be able to add everything else directly to the sump in a high current area....maybe in the baffles.

If you are adding all of that stuff then you better be testing for it... What is your ALK and Ca levels? You are adding liquid calcium + kalkwasser? either together or seperate isn't a good idea. If together, then the Ca should almost immediately percipiate in the CaOH2.

What is in your tank that is using all that stuff? Remember, gallons don't use up the stuff... the living things do.

 

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't dose any of that stuff at all. The coral vital and the micro vert is pretty useless, and the other stuff you need to be testing levels before you dose.
Whatever you do, never mix any chemicals before adding them to your tank, and you should wait a few minutes between dosing different additives.

Personally, I don't think anyone needs to dose any additives cept kalk and calcium.

 

[ticker]

ufan, i'm also posted a cal. at 275 and alk. at 5.14 topic, so thanks for both subjects help, ufan....

also wanted to add that i bought the tank and following his mantainance, and learning as i go, so thanks again for your help, and you others, i'm finding that i don't need to be dosing unless i'm testing, i'm going to buy a iodine and moly test this weeken.

i've got a ridala and a rose anename, your zoo's, your capnella, your green
star pulp, pink cattus looking thing, mushrooms, green brain, something
"sunflower"....and a blue tang, male and famale carpenter wrasp, dragon
wrasp, mateing pair of pink scunk clowns, tomato clown, two pj cardnals, two
red scuters, banded shrimp, yellow tale dansal, eight green cromes, and
hermit crabs....

also about 150lbs of live rock, and about 150lbs live sand

 

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't bother with the iodine and moly test. Those elements are rarely an issue.

 

[Anonymous]

>....Kalkwasser should really be dosed seperate from everything else. ...

kalkwassor MUST be doesed separately from ANYTHING else. Never mix additives together unless you have the chemistry all work out that they don't interact.

 

[ufans]

>....Kalkwasser should really be dosed seperate from everything else. ...

kalkwassor MUST be doesed separately from ANYTHING else. Never mix additives together unless you have the chemistry all work out that they don't interact.

Not so fast.... There are elements that can be dosed with Ca0H2. Like Iodine. Like you said.. you just have to make sure that the other elements don't cause a chemical reaction. Ca0H2 is rather unstable.. which is why things as simple as CO2 cause it to percipate.

Unless you are confident that there aren't going to be any chemical reactions...then dose seperately. But, like everyone else is saying. Make sure there is a reason for dosing the other elements (including CaOH2) in the first place. I to have been guilty of using my aquarium as a science project... Unless you go VERY VERY slow you are just going to get everything out of balance and then you are going to have a hard time getting it back into balance without a VERY LARGE water change.

Have fun testing...but don't add chemicals until you know (1) that they are absolutely needed, (2) you know how they are going to affect all of the other levels, and (3) you are ready to accept the concequences.

If you see Ca falling.. do a water change first. If you see it falling continuously, then there is a good change that something important is consuming the Ca. Then you can think about adding supplemental Ca between water changes. So, no matter what the element is, make sure you can test for the drop...then do a water change and continue testing... if you continually see it dropping then think about supplementing.

 

[ticker]

thanks ufans, and all..