Can I dose calcium acetate for both carbon and calcium in one?

[Alpha_and_Gec]

I have a big leftover pile of calcium carbonate rock(oyster shell and coral bones) and a lot of white vinegar. If I make a solution of calcium acetate, will that act as both a calcium source and a carbon source(via acetate ion), or am I just stupid?

Alternatively, is it healthy for corals to use calcium chloride formed from said rocks and hydrochloric acid as a component of kalkwasser? I’m not sure how pure commercial HCl is, or if trace impurities will kill things.

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

(Commercial calcium chloride is so god danged expensive)

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

@Randy Holmes-Farley Any opinions? I did come across literature supporting acetate in use of supporting denitrification, and calcium acetate should be soluble enough to be used as a dosing supply.

Hydrochloric acid however… I can‘t figure out if that‘s safe or not.

Denitrification in presence of acetate and glucose for bioremediation of nitrate-contaminated groundwater - PubMed

With the current increasing interest in aquifer denitrification, recent attention has been given to cost-effective in-situ treatments such as Enhanced In-Situ Biological Denitrification (EISBD), which intends to stimulate the indigenous bacterial activity by injecting an external organic...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Investigation of an Acetate-Fed Denitrifying Microbial Community by Stable Isotope Probing, Full-Cycle rRNA Analysis, and Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization-Microautoradiography

The acetate-utilizing microbial consortium in a full-scale activated sludge process was investigated without prior enrichment using stable isotope probing (SIP). [[13] C]acetate was used in SIP to label the DNA of the denitrifiers. The [[13] C]DNA fraction ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Calcium acetate is a balanced calcium and alk additive with a fixed amount of organic carbon added. Salifert All in One is calcium acetate.

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

Calcium acetate is a balanced calcium and alk additive with a fixed amount of organic carbon added. Salifert All in One is calcium acetate.

Awesome. I'll start using this stuff once my CaCl2 runs out.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Awesome. I'll start using this stuff once my CaCl2 runs out.

Remember it adds alk too.

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

Remember it adds alk too.

yeah, so that's three milk jugs shortened into 1, saves a lot of space. Now I'm not sure if commercial white vinegar is measured in percentage by mass or volume, but I can always just react with excess calcium.