Dosing Kalk

[allan]

It did then... but then I started having issues getting that stuff straight.

My PH would drop through the floor, I'd get it to 8.2 for a few hours and then it would plummet.

All in all, it worked well for about two years. Then it started having a bad effect and I started losing coral.

But, to clarify, I followed Ping's earlier instructions that night that he came over for my sea hare. "Allan, put a teaspoon into a quart container with RO, shake it up, and pour it into your sump about half an hour after lights out."

He went on to say that would be a very basic beginning regime. I kept at it. And then, to make matters worse, I grew cocky and started putting it in at lights out. Then I got foolish and started doing it to demonstrate to visitors how I dose Kalk (because pouring it in was too difficult to do verbally).

I learned a lot over the last year and a half of my 210 and 350 gallon systems. I'm fixing to start up a softy nano up here in Dallas, will be experimenting with long term (one week to nine days) hands off approach. So no livestock, just zoas and... well, just zoas. I won't have to worry about kalk.