I don't really care one way nor the other what manner people handle their Calcium and Alkalinity supplementation. EVERY single method has benefits and issues and my goal when discussing them with people is that they know both sides of the coin.
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Originally Posted by Birdlady I have friends who run both CA and Kalk reactors together as well for calcium and pH and alkalinity stability.  |
Actually this is what a lot of my friends do. Like BL said, the additional Calcium offsets the need to really push down the pH in the reactor to get more Calcium. (The biggest problem with really pushing Ca reactors is that reactor media has tons of Phosphorus in it so you are really putting more P into your tank than you need to). The only other issue with reactors can be their tendency to drive down pH. Kalk fixes this as well.
There is one thing that I have found on many boards that I want to point out. People are often using Seachem Marine Buffer interchangably with Seachem Reef Buffer. I'm sure it's because that's what their LFS's are selling only Marine Buffer. That's what all my LFS's carry. Seachem MARINE BUFFER IS FOR FOWLR TANKS....NOT REEF TANKS. For reef tanks, you should use Reef Buffer. I've spoken with Seachem chemists about this issue. (It was several years ago and I don't recall the reason why). I'm going to contact Rusty from Seachem and see if he can refresh my memory. They are very different formulations. If I cannot get ahold of Rusty, I'll PM Boomer.