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Hi - Desperately looking for any help from folks with more experience than me......
Issue: Using 1.5 tsp per gallon of kalkwasser powder with distilled water in an ATO and still losing about 0.5 dKh daily, while Calcium seems fairly stable at 420-450 ppm, however pH is sky high at 8.6.
Tank is a mixed reef 30.2 gallon AIO with about 13 or so frags of SPS/LPS and a rock flower anem. I'm reluctant to think the alkalinity consumption from my corals is higher than what my kalkwasser ATO is supplying @ 1.5 tsp/gal concentration and thus resulting in the persistent drop in kH. However, I'm not seeing any obvious signs of abiotic preciptation (water cloudiness or significant precipitate on equipment). Also, the high pH makes me think I need to back off the kalkwasser concentration. Not sure what's going on....or if I need to abandon kalkwasser ATO (really don't want to because I like the simple setup and worked great initially) and just get dosing pumps for 2-part.
Any ideas? .....TIA.
Issue: Using 1.5 tsp per gallon of kalkwasser powder with distilled water in an ATO and still losing about 0.5 dKh daily, while Calcium seems fairly stable at 420-450 ppm, however pH is sky high at 8.6.
Tank is a mixed reef 30.2 gallon AIO with about 13 or so frags of SPS/LPS and a rock flower anem. I'm reluctant to think the alkalinity consumption from my corals is higher than what my kalkwasser ATO is supplying @ 1.5 tsp/gal concentration and thus resulting in the persistent drop in kH. However, I'm not seeing any obvious signs of abiotic preciptation (water cloudiness or significant precipitate on equipment). Also, the high pH makes me think I need to back off the kalkwasser concentration. Not sure what's going on....or if I need to abandon kalkwasser ATO (really don't want to because I like the simple setup and worked great initially) and just get dosing pumps for 2-part.
Any ideas? .....TIA.