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Floggin


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I started Kalkwasser as well. I started out with 1 tsp in 5 gallon top off, and it seemed my ph was dropping a bit too low. So the next week i switched to 3 tsp in 5 gallong top off and PH hasn't really dropped. My calcium has stayed at about 480-500 ppm range, and my Alk was at 11 dKH but now is down to about 9 dKH. Joe, I bet your SPS is really going to thrive now that you have the Top off and kalkwasser going!



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i have the 40g reef tank, 55g which is my main tank that i have most of my corals ect. in, and a 30g tank dedicated to my green spoted puffers. 

as soon as i can i will setup my 112g tank and run it and my 40g on a single system. then get rid of the 55 and the puffer tank. thats the plan anyways 



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WELL IT HASNT REALLY BEEN A FRAG TANK SINCE I TORE THE 40G DOWN THE 40G IS MIXED REEF, BUT MY 55G IM TRYING TO RUN AS LOW NUTRIENT IT DOESNT HAVE A SAND BED.

I ORDERED A JBJ ATO FOR MY 55G IT WORKS REALLY WELL YOU SHOULD ORDER ONE FROM THEM



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Awesome man! Lol I'll probably end up ordering another one in the future. How's your frag tank doing?? I'm getting ready to setup one in the garage.

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Ok I am confused what tanks do you hane running now joe?

-- Edited by leb on Thursday 21st of June 2012 04:32:15 PM

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the auto top offs work well! makes it super easy for me



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How are you liking the ato?

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update on my kalk dosing im currently using a little over 10cc per 5 gal bucket of ro and maintaing alk of 9 dkh and calcium at 500ppm



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tested everything again last night posphates o dkh 8-9 cal 400-420 ph 8.2

im going to slightly increase my kalk to 5cc per 3.5 gal instead of 5gal then see if my calcium stays up.

so far i am liking the kalk its doing a good job at keeping my ph more stable



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I really hopes with your tank Joe!

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so far so good! ph is stable and i wont know how the calcium and alk are doing for a while 



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Ya joe keep us posted

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Thanks joe. Getting ready to do the same. Following along.

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i picked me up somekalkwasser a week ago and i done some research about dosing and the effects ect ect. however im posting this to kinda give some general information and to log about how i started to dose kalk and to see if it works for me and my tank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POsLy2Mp0m8

this is the aproach i took to dosing kalk at this time, i read quite a bit about it and looked at reactors stirrers ect. 

im going to keep a close track of my ph cal and alk. i statred off this evening with 1 teapoon on kalk in a 5 gallon bucket of ro hooked up to my auto topoff that pumps about 3 gal per hour of ro and my tank uses about 1 gallon of water per day in evaparation. so my tank will be dosed about 1cc of kalk per day. i will not know if this is enough kalk for my tank untill i see how my prameters react 



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