I currently dose kalkwasser via a dosing pump from a 20 gallon still reservoir. Once the level drops to 5 gallons remaining, I add 30 teaspoons and pump in 15 gallons of RODI. I wait an hour then plug the dosing pump back in and normal dosing resumes. My system is around 300 gallons and I do 30 gallon water changes biweekly using red sea salt. These have been my parameter readings while dosing 61 ml/hr of kalkwasser.
8/18 CA 470 KH 8.1 Nitrates 5
8/25 CA 470 KH 8.1 Nitrates 5
9/14 Ca 480 KH 7.8 Nitrates 5
10/1 CA 470 KH 7.8 Nitrates 5
10/7 CA 460 KH 7.8 Nitrates 5
I wanted to raise my KH to around 8-8.2 so I raised my hourly dose from 61 to 63. Also during this time the weather got cooler and windows were left open boosting my ph from a norm of 8.1 to 8.4. Here is my reading from today, 24 hours after a wc.
10/31 CA 420 KH 6.6 Nitrates 5
Why would I be seeing such a dramatic drop? To correct this should I dose alk back up to at least 8 and up the kalk dosage?
8/18 CA 470 KH 8.1 Nitrates 5
8/25 CA 470 KH 8.1 Nitrates 5
9/14 Ca 480 KH 7.8 Nitrates 5
10/1 CA 470 KH 7.8 Nitrates 5
10/7 CA 460 KH 7.8 Nitrates 5
I wanted to raise my KH to around 8-8.2 so I raised my hourly dose from 61 to 63. Also during this time the weather got cooler and windows were left open boosting my ph from a norm of 8.1 to 8.4. Here is my reading from today, 24 hours after a wc.
10/31 CA 420 KH 6.6 Nitrates 5
Why would I be seeing such a dramatic drop? To correct this should I dose alk back up to at least 8 and up the kalk dosage?