Kalk Amount?

[NaCl_H2O]

I wanted to get some comparison data from others on the amount of Kalk powder others are using in say a 1 week period of time?

Granted I have a large volume system (call it 600g), but I seem to be dumping in lots of Kalk and still not driving my PH, Alk, or Ca off the scale. I am dumping in about 6-8 tbls every other day or so (when I see PH dropping near or below 8.0). When PH is 8.1+, Ca is sitting around 475, and Dkh at 10-11.

What are other's Kalk usage and what's your water volume and Ca demand levels?

Thx - Steve

[JimD]

lol, 6-8 tablespoons aint squat to a system of that size, start thinkning in cupfulls, plus you might wanna think about getting your levels where you want them first then maintain them with kalk.

[NaCl_H2O]

lol, 6-8 tablespoons aint squat to a system of that size, start thinkning in cupfulls, plus you might wanna think about getting your levels where you want them first then maintain them with kalk.

Thanks Jim! Everytime I get into a newbie area for me I ease into it ... I'm probably too conservative!

My plan was to get the levels where I wanted and then ease back, but I just didn't have a yardstick for comparison!

... I think I will go order a bigger tub of Kalkwasser now, does it come in 55g barrels :-D

[CD]

Plus, won't your needs increase as the corals grow? Heh...with that kind of volume, you may just want to become a Kalkwasser stock-holder. Yep, I foresee a jump in sales for them. ;)

I would've started out small too though...better to under-dose than over.

Wendy

[donniekim]

Pickling lime is the same thing and quite abit cheaper. See "Mrs. Wages pickling lime"


Donnie

[TroyPham]

i've been looking for pickling lime for months now and can't seem to find any.. i've been doseing tons of kalk. and couldn't get my Ca level to go up. but i've figured out why... and levels have been going up everyday now.

[technomex]

Try using this calculator. It works great for calcium and alk.
http://www.kademani.com/reefchem.htm

[SuperXdude]

HEB sells it.

Very cheap.



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[1salt]

I went online and bought it direct from www.mrswages.com $3.85 very cheap...