What do you use to maintain the calcium & alkalinity?

What do you use to maintain the calcium & alkalinity in your aquarium?

Please share with us and other hobbyists what works for you!



Pictured here: AquaMaxx Synergy Plus 2-Part Calcium & Alkalinity Supplements

 

I've been very pleased with the aquavitro line from seachem. I started dosing 2 years ago to keep up with my corals demand and I've only used aquavitro. I use reef builder from seachem as well when I run out of eight four by aquavitro. I have to dose alkalinity every night in small doses with top off to maintain my alk at 10. I dose calcium 2-3 times a week and rarely do I dose magnesium as my weekly water changes with coral pro salt keeps that inline.

 

Thank you very much for sharing. We always love to hear what everyone else is doing and what works best for them.

Amy @ MD

 

I used to use seachem calcium and reef builder alk (and loved the results). But one day my tank started reacting bad to it and I tried a few times more. Even contacting their customer service(which was very helpful). So then I switched to kent cal, alk, mag. And things have been happy since. But a little pricey.

 

First ten years I used calcium hydroxide (Kalk).
Last decade I've been using Randy Holmes Farley's DIY formula.

 

Good seahorse information in the link in your signature block. We're actually working on a seahorse article for next week.