Originally Posted by
Keith Gray
http:///forum/post/3208408
Has anyone here used the Seachem reef complete ? I don't have the time, energy or money to do a drip system. I was curious if anyone had used this product and found it beneficial
I use reef complete daily but reef complete is a calcium supplement (calcium chloride with proportional amounts of mg and sr) for maintaining or raising calcium. seachem reef carbonate is the alkalinity counterpart to reef complete and what your looking for to raise or maintain alk.
I use that daily to maintain alkalinity. its just a baking soda and baked baking soda mix in water (baking the baking soda does the same for alkalinity but also raises pH where straight baking soda has little effect on pH). most off the shelf buffers combine both (and most add borate salts too. seachem interesting doesn't which is odd because their salt is loaded with it).
seachem reef carbonate, kent pro buffer dkh or brightwell alkalin8.3 are probably the easiest locally found liquid alkalinty buffers (or any alk part of a 2 part). at this point it only cost me $16 a month ($9 for 500ml of reef complete and $7 for 500ml of reef carbonate) to maintain ca/alk so while it may cost way more than buying BRS dry (or even from the same companies dry) the cost is still trivial and I can just pour it straight in.