Calcium
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You can wreck a Mercedes by driving to fast on ice just like you can wreck a ford doing the same thing. People think because they have expensive or fancy equipment that its the only way it can be done. There are numerous TOTM entries where two part is used. And I doubt the people manually dose 8 times a day. We use regulators at work in the hospital. Guess what they fail and I am pretty sure the hospital has some of the best do to legal reasons.
I feel you on that I just have been using the Titan regulators for 4 years about 22 of them of witch I have only switched out 1 in that time. As I said 24/7 use with 30 min on and 30 min off timers. And yes you can wreck a mbenz or a ford driving too fast on ice but that's like saying your going to misuse the regulator witch will obviously cause it to fail.if maintained correctly the mbenz will out last the ford. Same with the regulators, just like ppl prefer Cree LEDs to others cuz they preform better and last longer.
When my media needs to be replaced, you can come up if you want and we can go through both failure scenarios on my display. I have had both of them happen, and even tested them. The display will be fine. If you flood the chamber, the tank PH will drop about .10 for about 2 hours - not even enough to make the Acropora slime - and after about 1 hour, the PH coming out of the reactor is tank water PH because it is not recirculating long enough to really drop too low. Then, we can turn the bubbles up to as many as you want and nothing will happen to the tank - the reactor will shut down all incoming water and the excess CO2 will just go into the air. The first scenario (reactor purge) will raise the alk, mag and calcium about 2%. The second scenario could melt my media, so we cannot just do this anytime. 
Both scenarios will require me to retune, which is also necessary after new media.
Guys who have PH monitors can have issues with scenario 2 when their PH probe gets out of whack and thinks that the PH is higher than it really is. They melt their media (usually), but the tank does not crash.
Your friend's issue with chronically low PH can happen with a reactor, but it not will continue to fall without the kalk. In most cases, the tank PH can drop .1 to .15, or so, depending the media that you are trying to melt (some will melt at 6.7 and some needs 6.4 or 6.5). Some tanks will not drop at all - mine is around .02. This issue is oftentimes atmospheric CO2 in the home, but I don't know for sure without more details. In any case, I ran my SPS tank in my basement in Missouri with a PH range of 7.78 to 8.11 every day with no issues.
Chronic low PH is not the same thing that would happen if either the bubbles stuck on or the chamber dumped.
Both scenarios will require me to retune, which is also necessary after new media.Guys who have PH monitors can have issues with scenario 2 when their PH probe gets out of whack and thinks that the PH is higher than it really is. They melt their media (usually), but the tank does not crash.
Your friend's issue with chronically low PH can happen with a reactor, but it not will continue to fall without the kalk. In most cases, the tank PH can drop .1 to .15, or so, depending the media that you are trying to melt (some will melt at 6.7 and some needs 6.4 or 6.5). Some tanks will not drop at all - mine is around .02. This issue is oftentimes atmospheric CO2 in the home, but I don't know for sure without more details. In any case, I ran my SPS tank in my basement in Missouri with a PH range of 7.78 to 8.11 every day with no issues.
Chronic low PH is not the same thing that would happen if either the bubbles stuck on or the chamber dumped.