Just wondering how much 2 part you are dosing in your tanks for calcium and alkalinity? If possible include your tank size and stocking levels. I have a 120 and controlling mine through and Apex and DOS setup.
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I'm interested in your system: How concentrated is your kalk solution in the ATO? What kind of ATO do you have? I'm considering doing something like this too because I like the pH benefits of kalk but am worried about the lack of trace elements, so I would like to dose some AFR as well.80ml of all for reef and top off with kalk.. 350!gallons of water sps dominated tank.
I would use straight all for reef if it wasn’t gonna break the bank! lol. I love that product and swear by it after using it now for several months.. I use kalk to help ph, and offset the cost of the all for reef.. I dump 2 cups into a 20 gal resi and let it do its thang with my cheap aqua auto top off pump.. my tank evaps 2-5 gallons depending on the season obviously which right now being cold and dry I lose a lot more water than the summer months.I'm interested in your system: How concentrated is your kalk solution in the ATO? What kind of ATO do you have? I'm considering doing something like this too because I like the pH benefits of kalk but am worried about the lack of trace elements, so I would like to dose some AFR as well.
My system is relatively young, much smaller (75gal), and pretty low demand. At the moment, I'm dosing 120ml/day of kalk at the 2tsp/1gallon concentration with a doser and that's keeping my calcium, alkalinity, and pH really stable. I use a cheap ATO with a sensor and it tends to just dump water into the sump. It will kick on maybe 20 times a day and top off a little under a gallon a day. My biggest concern is that my ATO may be putting too much in at once and I may get random pH spikes.
I'm also considering if dosing an extremely diluted solution of AFR in the ATO would also work for what I want to do and maybe pose less of a risk of spiking pH like kalk would if something goes wrong.
Have you tried the powder?I would use straight all for reef if it wasn’t gonna break the bank! lol. I love that product and swear by it after using it now for several months.. I use kalk to help ph, and offset the cost of the all for reef.. I dump 2 cups into a 20 gal resi and let it do its thang with my cheap aqua auto top off pump.. my tank evaps 2-5 gallons depending on the season obviously which right now being cold and dry I lose a lot more water than the summer months.
That’s what I use.. I’m not paying a premium for ro water haha.. I’d guess I’d use 150-200 ml a day without any other supplements.Have you tried the powder?
Ouch! I'm 14ml AFR. + Kalk+ 2 part.That’s what I use.. I’m not paying a premium for ro water haha.. I’d guess I’d use 150-200 ml a day without any other supplements.