Dripping kalk at night

[09bumblebee]

I need to drip some kalk at night. My ph on the frag tank drops to 7.79 what's the best way to do this without a reactor and I don't want to use my ato.

 

[Bajamike]

Re: Dripping kalk at night

I need to drip some kalk at night. My ph on the frag tank drops to 7.79 what's the best way to do this without a reactor and I don't want to use my ato.

I dose kalk with a brs doser. I dose 8x a day and my ph is 8.2 -8.4 if thats is an option for you

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[Bajamike]

Re: Dripping kalk at night

I also just thought of another way. I forget where I seen it but the guy made a dripper out of a jug and 1/4" water line and 1/4" ball valve from home depot. I would have it drip into a mixing glass the first night so you could measure the amout you dose

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[09bumblebee]

I do have a spare brs doser. Do you mix it everday? Where is your line that you pull from the jug? 3/4 into it halfway?

 

[Haddonisreef]

I'd mix kalk let sit for a day or so mixing it now and then, then add just fluid not the gunk at the bottom of the jug.

 

[Bajamike]

Re: Dripping kalk at night

No I mix 1 gallon jug then put the tube about 1/4" above the undisoved kalk the pump does not seem to pull that stuff up. Not only did my ph stable out but so did my alk. Could not maintain alk above 7.5 now no matter when I test its at 9.5 every time I test

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[09bumblebee]

Do you add fresh water to it or just pull from it, when empty refill

 

[Bajamike]

Re: Dripping kalk at night

Do you add fresh water to it or just pull from it, when empty refill

I run until almost empty then add 2 tbsp and refill I mix it using a mj 1200 and let it sit to settle. You could also just have 2 gallon jugs mix in one dose with the other so you just have lime water in one. I don't know how big your system is but I dont worrie about getting the cloudy stuff in a 700 gallon system. You might want to do the 2 jug thing if you worrie at all. If you follow the directions it says mix and pour off the saturated lime water and use that.

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[Bajamike]

Re: Dripping kalk at night

Another thing is brs has a great calculator I used a 1/8th of the dose to begin. Just incase I made a mistake I could recover. I dose 1056 ml a day. Might give you a place to start. So if you have a 100 gallon system thats 1/7th of mine I would start with 150 ml a day to start and see if you need more. But thats a real conservative dose imo

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[09bumblebee]

Ok, the frag tank is 40-50 gal I run a kalk reactor on the 90. But obviously overkill on the frag tank. I was thinking of making a small setup with some round acrylic. Basically duplicating the reactor but small version. Ill try the 1 gal jug idea first.

 

[Aaron]

Check your alk level, I was having problems with this recently. The cause for me was low alk.

 

[ReeferMatt]

This is how I dose: http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-06/nftt/

I use a gallon ice tea jug and have never really had any problems with it.

 

[09bumblebee]

Check your alk level, I was having problems with this recently. The cause for me was low alk.

I run an alk dose pump.