Best method. It maintains salinity at a constant level and keeps your alk and kalk at consistantly high levels. Skeletalization still occurs during lights out, although not at nearly the same rate as with the lights on, and rates of calcification are correspondingly low during dark periods (iof any occurs at all), but there is still some utilization or both alk and Ca even at night.mnreefman said:well i was dripping kalk in my 40 gal sps 24/7...
I just don't see it. It supplies a balanced Ca and Alk supplement, no unwanted ions, any excesses will precipitate out of solution, it will remove Phosphates from solution down to reasonable levels, I just don't see a down side (although just like any system of supplementation, there are things tht can go wrong).mnreefman said:this was coming from people who say if you dose 24/7 you ca and alk will be outa whack
one of those extreme situations, or when there are few consumers of alkalinity and Ca for calcification and skeletalization. Limewater is CaOH in a saturated solution. It depends on CO2 to provide the inorganic carbon for the converion of Carbonic acid to bicarbonaate and carbonate to make tha buffer system (alk). In systems where their is eather a low Co concentration or where there are few organisms using alkalinity and Ca, the solution will remove carbonic acid from the solution to form the bicarbonate so effectively that the pH will rise due to the relative ABSENCE of CO2. usually happens when themnreefman said:how exactly does kalk fluctuate your ph...
Here are a few links to get you started, lots of info out there in the archives, as well as sites like Advanced Aquarist, Reefkeeping Magazine, etc. Look for Randy Holmes and Craig Bingman as authors. short list to start:9fishers said:... I need to do some major reading on this. What can you guys recommend to ease me into this? ...
