I just a have a large return pump chamber so I don't do anything with an ato it's about a 180 gallon system so I just dump 5 gallons in every few days lolThanks, I remeber dosing kalk back in the day and did exactly as you did with milk jugs. I eventually just went to 2 part. But took the tank down before I could see the results. Thought there might be a better solution this time around but Milk jug it is. Thinking of using a Kamoer wifi for pump If I cant find a used brs dosing pump. The Kamoer one im using for my afr has worked well for me, maybe hook to ac controller to not run or shut off if PH gets above a set amount. Is your kalk water your only water you are using for dosing and ATO. Or do you run a separate ATO as well. My plan is to hopefully have my ATO still online. Run Kalk in low dose for PH increase, and AFR for trace, mag,alc,cal. Hopefully this all works together and I dont crash the tank.
this works like I hope Broke down and got the algae free. Im to nervous to use a razor blade on the glass still. Also really trying to keep my hands out of the tank.
Are your systems tied together? I would just start slow, probably with fully saturated kalk solution witch is about 1 and 1/2 tsp kalkwasser per gallon maybe a bit more or less depending on the witch kalkwasser you get. Slowly add more kalk and less two part it's certainly cheaper but doing the math on this for ball park idea of what to dose would be difficult. Probably more of a touch and go situation. And a pro tip always keep your kalk powder in a air tight bag or even better two. I use the brs kalk and the bags are not air tight I have a large zip lock over the bag and squeeze as much air out as possible then another ziplock. Not certain of your system size but you might just want to start with a bucket with an air tight lid. Some people go as far as making a float on the inside of the kalk container so that air (co2) doesn't touch the surface of the kalk solution. Also Milwaukee has several different hand held ph probes that are accurate, I forget what model but they can be used to measure your kalk solution so that every time you mix up a new batch you'll have consistent results. Should be a ph of 12.54 at around 77 degrees F. I'm not familiar with the relation between kalk solutions ph and temp but it does fluctuate from what I'm reading. I have far to many notebooks and can't find my notes but this is about everything. Again a bit of a ramble but should be solid info. Kalk is much cheaper than 2 part. It also has a detoxifying effect what this detoxify's I'm not certain but it's what I've read probably from a randy Holmes-Farley article.
saliferttest kit
its hard to say. im going have rc test cal,mag,and alk if they will tomorrow. I’ve been doing weekly water changes of about 12 gallons. I’ll hope it’s a bad test kit and hope for some answers tomorrow
My fresh salt measures 500 and my tank is at 450. So from what I have my tank is pretty much whee i want it in those terms. So now that I lost a full night of sleep trying to figure out how I was going to raise my calc by 400 lol I can go back to focusing on raising my PH. LOL 1 night of dosing the 10Ml didnt show any results. Think I raise it by 10ml for tonight and see what happens. Instead of adding 2ml per hour. Ill go 2ml per 1/2 hour giving a total of 10 doses and 20ml of the 1/2 tablespoon per gallon solution.Often times when I'm reading directions I'll skip a whole step/line. Couple days ago I was putting another mp10 on my tank and I was trying to reset it man I read the directions like 10 times finally tried to read it out loud and.... well let's just say I thought the thing was broken and I was getting pissedWow, felling dumb. LOl I knew it just had to be operator error. After adding my 2ml of water to test vial and then the ca-1. Water turns a little pink before mixing. Once I start adding the Ca-2 a few drops at a time and swirling the water instantly turned pink. So I stopped adding and read. This reads 40-50 for calc. But if you follow the directions and add the .6 like your suppone to and swirl for 5 seconds the water turns back to pink. Then start adding the few drops at a time and swirl. When doing this the correct way.
