Excellent video. 2 questions. 1. When you add the kalk into the vat are you leaving a power head inside to constantly or periodically mix the solution? 2. When you run out of solution are you cleaning out the vat of the sludge at the bottom? Thanks again. Great video
I have been doing Chris method for 2 years and yes it works. I does my kalk at night when lights go out and stops when light come on. My ph at night is 8.3 morning is 8.5. I keep my alk at 6.5dkh. And my corals grow like weeds. In one year I have full grown Colonie and I have also notice RTN and STN has never happened with ph levels staying above 8.2 For everyone that whats more info look at reef bum videos and find the first videos with chris. It explains everything
Can you clarify . If your dKH is 6.5 don't it spike up some time in the middle of the night to early morning when your dosing kalk. If so, how high before it gets back down to your target 6.5 dKH?
Might it be better if you program your Versa in Mobius at a constant rate of 13.33 and then power your Versa pump through you EB832 as you do and add the following code: IF Time 10:00 to 22:00 Then OFF. This assuming you are running your lights from 10am to 10pm. It looks like with your code, the Versa could potentially run all day and overfill your system if the pH remained low or if the ph probe failed.
I was advised by Chris to turn off ATO whilst dosing Kalkwasser this method? I like your videos 👍🏻👍🏻 I haven’t started yet but I’m too using the versa when I start
What about the initial mixing ? I saw in the update it’s 5 gallon buckets. How’s that mixing process? Clears up relatively quick? What’s your preferred kalk brand? Thanks a ton!
I think this method will work perfectly fine if Currently you are dosing Kalk , but have maxed out your daily evap and having to dose additional 2 part just to keep up with the dkh consumption.
I have a few question: Do I set to turn of @ > 8.28 Or my Daily average @ 8.1? How do I dose the full amount over the 12hr period at night , because my ph value is reached quicker than to does 10000ml ? And dosing around the 2Litres mark , I’m confused? My sump level never raises but I’m guessing to cover the shortfall I turn my ATO to cover the 3litres?
To answer your first question if. your daily average is 8.1 And you're trying to get up to 8.28 Then you need to do as follows Set your apex to shut off the dosing at. your current daily average. In doing this, you. will notice day by day your daily average should be going up. Your daily average goes up, you need to change your apex setting to follow the daily average. You continue to do this until your system reaches your desire. target. Here is an example. Day 1. daily average. 8.1 day two daily average. 8.11 So you would change your shut off value to 8.11. day 3, 8 .12 So you would change your daily shut off value to 8.12.
Im a bit worried, lets say all is ok and suddenly i have a party in my house with 20 people, obviously pH will go down due to extra co2, so Apex will have to dose a lot more of Kalk to keep Ph stable? And probably will spike Alk even more?
Great video and explanation, thank you. One part I'm unclear about is if I'm dosing my full 24 hr. evaporation amount in a 12 hr. window, won't that throw off salinity? Guessing I'll need to increase my evapoation rate to match the dose amount?
As long as you are not far exceeding your evaporated amount it shouldn't be much of a impact on salinity. This is what my personal observations have been so far.
So my evap is at 6050 I put in 12000 and at night I check it It’s about 1inch above the line I stay at so it’s dosing more then 6050 what would you do Your videos are my go to videos good job
No you can leave the old kalk in there and just clean out your container once a month. That's what Chris does. He does not mix a fresh batch every time he adds new kalk as needed. Your kalk ph need to be at 12.5 evey batch.
how high can the alk spike before it is concerning? i'm in the process of converting a fish only to a reef tank. ie no corals yet. i'm trying the ACL method, and pH is set at 8.3 but the alk is so high it is beyond the high range of the hanna checker ie >17 dkh
I would stop doing this until you have a need for dosing in the first place. With no demand for CAL, ALK ie corals you have no reason to be dosing which is the reason for your DKH being so high. Most run a DHK of 7.5 to 9 and 17DKH is very concerning.
pH can't be controlled to 8.2 to 8.3 without the dkh. should i allow the tank to go back to normal alk levels and add corals before adding corals ? @@niagarafirecorals
with kalkstirrer do you have the time it is spinning and time when it is not programmed in the apex? I'm wanting to switch off total two part to kalkwasser I have an icecap 200 stirrer
@nicolewilson8891 The reason it doesn't work is because the stirrers/reactors fluctuate PH levels constantly, whereas mixing and running from a holding vessel with a lid is much more stable.
@@niagarafirecorals I was on 3rd floor apartment and ph was so suppressed this method was not working. I have a 75g display with 30g sump. Co2 scrubbing work very well for me. We are in a house now and kinda re established the whole tank so when I actually see a need for alk dosing I might try it again. I also bought a calcium reactor to dose when needed, hoping to use that and co2 scrubbing maintain ph. My skimmer shuts off at 8.3 and my swing is 8.1 to 8.3ph. I tend to get 30days of use on half a $25 bag of media. Btw you have stunning corals. Too bad you can’t ship to USA?
