Given the cost of calcium reactor setups (and filtration) for 1000+ gallon systems, would it not be better just to do auto water changes to deal with keeping calcium and alkalinity stable?
I have been pricing out the cost of running all manor of dosing methods and, it seems to me, if you can get a salt mix that hits your target numbers, then just changing out a certain amount of water a day would work and honestly cost far less in the long run. Not to mention that you can run on less filtration equipment if you are doing this as well. Win-win.
This would require that you test the pH, Calcium and Alk every couple of days until you can stabilize the numbers then at least weekly. But, in a commercial situation you should be testing that often anyway in my opinion.
Thoughts?
I have been pricing out the cost of running all manor of dosing methods and, it seems to me, if you can get a salt mix that hits your target numbers, then just changing out a certain amount of water a day would work and honestly cost far less in the long run. Not to mention that you can run on less filtration equipment if you are doing this as well. Win-win.
This would require that you test the pH, Calcium and Alk every couple of days until you can stabilize the numbers then at least weekly. But, in a commercial situation you should be testing that often anyway in my opinion.
Thoughts?