How to calculate calcium consumption while dosing kalk?

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16 gallon nano, set up with ATO with RODI water.
Dosing 168ml of kalk per day, and 8ml per day of Brightwell's Alkalin8.3. Without the Alkalin, I would need to up the dosage of kalk more than the daily evaporation, which as I understand is a nono. Right now, in over 5 days, my ATO has not kicked in, but my water level is holding steady.

So, the question is, if I want to start dosing trace elements, like red seas ABCD, which goes by calcium consumption, how do I go about determining it?
 

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"168ml" of kalk doesn't tell us much because we don't know the actual amount you are using. I can guess based on what most people mix it at, but that is still variable.

Unless you are hypersaturating your kalk mix that's a pretty trivial amount of calcium in any respect. I wouldn't waste time putting it in the equation even if I believed in this trace element dosing which I dont.
 
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