Dosing Kalkwasser?

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  1. Mainstream Aqua

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    Ditto


    For a safer but for expensive way, yes, stick with 2 part. However, I have had several kalk overdoses on my home system but it had about 250g of water. There was some die off but after a week or so, my new growth was amazing.


    For me, it just boils down to accurate testing of Ca, Alk, pH and supplementing based on equipment and budget.
     
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  2. Mainstream Aqua

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    Here are my 3 steps to Kalk supplementing.

    1. Don't dose anything without testing unless you are very experienced

    2. Don't Drip Kalk with 5 gallon buckets in tanks smaller thank 150g w/o constant monitoring of pH

    3. All you really need is a Kalk reactor, pH montior (reversed setting), and dosing pump. Toss the Ca reactor.
     
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  3. ingtar_shinowa

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    sigh i need a dosing pump
     
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