kalkwasser with vinegar????

I posted a thread about this a few weeks ago, Vinegar dosing WITH kalkwasser is actually a really good idea

Let me see if I can find the thread with the dosing regimine and dosing amounts


Here is my thread as well as a link to an article about vinegar dosing with kalkwasser
http://www.3reef.com/forums/water-chemistry/quick-about-vinegar-dosing-137304.html

 

lol Alex, an analogy I can relate too

Thx for the help, maybe I'll use this pico for stirring the water and get a 200gph one.

Plus eliminating the vinegar eliminates a step, which I am all for.

Is using a ATO for kalk that big of a danger? I haven't read many problems from it?

 

Its not until it is. A couple months ago I bought a bunch of kalk to do this but there are alot of factors. One, your Ca and Alk supplementation is dependent on evaporation. Usually you have more evaporation durring a certain point of the year. Its winter for me since it gets alot more dry in my house. This is not great for stability. One I program my doing pumps its pretty much set and forget for 2 part. I have to make sure as my colonies and clams grow to keep adjusting the amount of doing... but if I had to account for that AND seasonal variations my tank would go haywire again.

 

That makes sense. Yeah my evap is easily double in winter, but the AC here keeps my air dryer, but then again, you live in montana where the air is always dry(compared to here anyways)

HMMM

 

Here is the correct dosing chart for VINEGAR, you have to be careful because alot of the dosing charts are actually for VODKA

Typical conversion is double the recommended vodka dose, So .4ML of vodka would be .8ML of vinegar

 

I'm with cosmo. im also looking to dose with kalkwasser and a little vinegar. i currently don't have a sump and was wanting to drip it out into the tank slowly.

 

What most articles don't tell you though is that the phosphates and heavy metals, that usually precipitate out when you mix kalk, do not when it is combined with vinegar.

 

Yes but dosing with vinegar or any other carbon source however lowers your Po4 and No3 levels to pretty much undetectable levels so while the kalkwasser itself may no longer precipitate Po4 out of the water the carbon source does, and it does a better jobs

Not to mention the added benefit of your corals coloring up much better than most people would ever expect

 

The carbon source doesn't remove them... The increased bacteria remove them via skimming.
Carbon dosing is an atom bomb just waiting to go off. there are much more natural ways to increase coral color

 

Good info! Definitely some food for thought!