Let’s talk Alk! Whats your tank suck down daily!!!

[bsr2430]

As the title says, what’s your tank suck down daily!

-Let’s hear the size of your tank and how much you dose daily in order to maintain Alkalinity (or Calcium).
-Also, what product are you using!

My tank is a 120g and needs 1.5 Alk daily.

Reason for this post, I use Kalk and want to get out of it.
Kalk is mixed in my ATO and it’s not enough for daily dosing so I use a doser on top of that.
Kalk is messy too, hate the build up from it too.

 

[SaltISlife]

Before i had a product i used that killed all my acroporas.. yes all 13 even though it claimed it was safe.. ( i cant say what due to a NDA i had to sign to get compensation) i was losing about 1.5 a day.

After that i lose maybe .5 to .75 a day now. I still have alot of corals over 90.. but the loss of my acros cut thr alk usage in half

 

[Johnike]

300 gallons, 100ml of BRS soda ash solution daily.
I just ordered a calcium reactor.

 

[redeyejedi]

130l tank. Uses roughly .3 DKH a day and is topped back up through water changes every other day.

 

[bsr2430]

300 gallons, 100ml of BRS soda ash solution daily.
I just ordered a calcium reactor.

What makes you want to use a Calcium reactor rather than dose Calcium?

 

[RussiReef]

300 gal SPS heavy. Dosing 600 mil a day of Brightwell Alkalin8.3

 

[RMS18]

120 gallons
BRS products
2 year old sps tank 60% frags / encrusted frags. 5 colonies 5+ inches wide.

49ml alk
45ml cal daily

 

[Saltyreef]

.3dkh/day. 40breeder stocked with mixed load. Lps softie heavy.

Ive actually revisited kalk and determined it can be done easier and cleaner with more concentration if imployed like avast outlines here with a stirrer.
But it would be a royal pain in the butt for me to switch back to this from my hybrid balling 2 part dosing regimine ive already dialed in.

 

[X-37B]

120. Carx with manmade media.
I dose trace daily that keeps mag and K at desired levels.
Strontium dosed weekly.
I dosed esv for the first year and went to a carx when part 1&2 reached 45ml a day.
Daily alk useage unknown.
Carx keeps alk at 7.2. Alk range is 7-7.5.

 

[Spieg]

70 gallon tank. Uses 1.5 dKH per day. I dose ESV B-ionic to keep up (30ml each part daily)

 

[RobB'z Reef]

I'm about 1dkh per day on a 180 and I maintain it using just kalk in an Avast stirrer. It's easy, cheap and clean.

 

[homer1475]

80G total water volume(not tank size), I dose Randys DIY 2 part(Recipe 2 - baking soda) for alk, and BRS calcium chloride for CAL. I lose about 1.2 DKH, dosing 137ML daily.

 

[Johnike]

What makes you want to use a Calcium reactor rather than dose Calcium?

Because a reactor takes care of both your alkalinity and calcium needs. I manually dose calcium chloride now.

 

[Oldreefer44]

180 gal. Dose 80ml of All For Reef. Ever since switching to Straton lights have had to keep increasing dosage.

 

[hds4216]

180 gal. Dose 80ml of All For Reef. Ever since switching to Straton lights have had to keep increasing dosage.

All for Reef is super expensive at that high of a dose, right?

 

[BranchingHammer]

65g tank with crystal 30 sump, so around 75g water volume. Using 33ml of soda ash and 33ml of CaCl2. I have a large derasa clam and many SPS frags.

 

[MichaelReefer]

around .5 a day. Kalk my ATO water keeps me at 8.5

 

[Dkmoo]

1.5dkh and 10ppm cal daily

29G mixed reef, pretty well stocked.

i know you didn't ask for ph - but here's mine: 8.2. pH has a direct and significant impact to alk/calc consumption (both calcification or precip)

 

[animatedcorals]

65 gallon mixed reef - 40ml a day

 

[Ling_Thing]

150 gallons total
Mixed reef
78ml foundation B redsea daily