See my comments below...
> Here I go again. I was sitting in front of my tank running thoughts thru
my
> head. I have been having trouble with my coralline algea growth later and
> one of my local pet stores suggested that I try kalkawasser. So while I
was
> messing around tonight I came across some IV tubing that I borrowed from
> work a couple of years back for just this reason but never did anything
with
> it. I mixed up some kalkawasser in an old 5 gal tank and set it dripping
at
> about 10 to 15 drops per min. first is this too much or too little?
Well, that's hard to say without knowing the size of your tank. Keeping an
eye on your pH, and a good calcium test kit is a good way to tell what is
"enough"
> much in my tank right now. I have a frogspawn, an elagance, a open brain,
a
> trumpet coral ,and a 7-8" deresa clam. I also have some soft coral also
Nice size clam! Mine is only 2 to 3 inches right now
> (polyps and xenia). Second question. I know that you are only suppose to
> mix up a week or so of kalk water at a time, but I have an idea for this.
I
> have an old HOT magnum canister filter in the closet. I was think that if
I
> was to put a micro filter in this and put it in the kalk water tank i
could
> circulate the water on a consistant basis and I think the kalk would catch
> in the micron filter like the diatoms on a diatom filter. Thus this would
> keep a clear solution and a saturated solution at all times. I would just
> have to top off the make up water and add more kalkawasser every now and
> again. Does anyone think this would work? I am worried about the calcium
> concentrations freezing up the filter to frequently.
I have been doing something very similiar for a few years now. I have a 5
gallon plastic bucket into which my RO/DI water filter automatically keeps
full via a vacuum float switch. I add powdered Kalkwasser every couple of
days when I notice the pH of my tank starting to drop. Also in the bucket I
have a small Maxi Jet powerhead. I have two float switches in series ( for
fault tolerance) in my sump which are connected to me Neptune Pro
controller. They operate the Max Jet in the Kalkwasser bucket when the
float switches drop. The pump sometimes pulls out some of the solid
kalkwasser, but most of the time it just pulls the clear fluid. I have had
to replace the pump once in about 2 years ($12) FWIW Good luck!
Craig
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