Reef builder

Bought some of this to raise my Carbonate hardness. Anyone ever tried it?

 

I have used that product for a long time, very happy with it as a means of maintaining DKH
if your manual dosing then drip it slowly as it does increase PH and preferable after tank lights are out, when PH would start to fall naturally anyway.

if your using a dosing pump, you will have to periodically clear the lines, as it does tend to want to fall out of solution, even if you dilute it in more than the suggested amount of RODI

Steve

 

Hmm I put the recommended does in a gal. of water, can I just pour some in every night I dont know if I have the means to drip it in. and I dont have a dosing pump

 

depends on how much you need to dose, starfish

the less you need, the faster you could add it without problem IME

are you dosing to maintain, if so how much does your tank demand in 1 day?
are you dosing to increase? if so how much of an increase do you think you need to make?

a simple drip can be made using a empty mineral water bottle and a lenght of airline tubing
add required amount of Reef Builder, and enough water to fill bottle
make hole in bottle cap
push airline through, ensuring it stays about 1cm away from base of bottle
start a syphon
make a loop knot on the airline and pull it very tight, so that it drips once or twice per second

that method will give you a drip, that IME takes about 3 - 4 hours to empty
and I was dosing to compensate for 0.25 dhk per day in my set up when using that method
basically 1 teaspoon of reef builder and 300 mils of RODI

Steve

 

Thanks I will have to try that, My DKH Is at 9 right now, I want it at 10, I will have to start dripping it to maintain it, And Im not sure how much my tank takes in a day how would I figure that out?

 

You have to test dkh for a period of days.Make note of how much you add and the effect it has on the tank.Over a period of time you will start to see a pattern.

 

That makes sense... hahah good thing its fall break for me, I have lots of time on my hands