Switching from Two Part to Kalk

[BroccoliFarmer]

Ok. I am sure this is a duplicate..but I was not able to find a thread on topic. As such, please accept my apologies.

I have an approximately 90 gallon total volume tank. Up until last week, i was dosing approximately 3 grams of Red Sea Alk (B) and 1 gram of Red Sea Calcium (A) a day. I was not dosing equally as I was trying to fine tune my calcium levels and bring them down a little. I just switched over to an Avast Marine Kalk stirrer. I am assuming that the stirrer keeps the kalk fully saturated but one can't be perfectly sure.

With the assumption that my 3 grams of Alk is my desired level of dosing, what would be an equivalent level of daily Kalk to dose to maintain these same levels. I am sure that I should be able to answer this myself..Ive just not had any luck.

Thank you in advance.

 

[BroccoliFarmer]

I used the reef calculator at http://reef.diesyst.com/chemcalc/chemcalc.html

I trial and errored the chemistry until i got to needing 3 grams of Red Sea powder. I then switched over the saturated Kalk and i got 0.29 gallons of Kalk.

Does this make sense? Seems like a lot of Kalk..but as I said..dont necessarily know if I am doing this right. I was originally just going to bump it up a few MLs at a time..but would rather avoid that


Thanks

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Yes, that's what I was going to do to answer the question.

limewater is quite dilute, hence the need to dose a lot of volume. 0.29 gallons to a 90 gallons system is still a pretty low dose (~0.4 dKH per day).

 

[BroccoliFarmer]

Thank you very much for confirming for me. I appreciate it.