Originally posted by spmnarciso
Golfish...that's awesome. Where do you live now? Danbury's cool, getting very expensive! Got to drive at least 45min. to get to a decent LFS.(Milford,Stamford,Hartford). You got to help me out. What would you do if you were in my shoes?
pH this morning was 8.3, so I had my fingers crossed and hoped that it would stay below 8.45 by the end of the light cycle. NO LUCK! 8.46!!!!!! Just turned off my dosing pump again, not sure I want to chance it getting any higher to see how high will it actually get. Measured Ca again today, yesterday 450, today 460! What am I going to do...went to all the trouble of building this beautiful KALK Reactor, and all it's doing is causing me problems.
If I go with Bang's idea to drip into skimmer, how would I do that? Especially without creating suction? can you give me some ideas?
My fug. at one time was lit 24/7 but since two months ago I switched to reverse lighting.(main lights off)
I'm in So Cal. We just went back there to see the plant and get some ideas. Around that time B n R was building a new state of the art plant here in So Cal. Who would of thougth that in less then 10 years they'd shut ALL the plants down and go with a co packer.
I don't see 8.5 a problem but it could go higher then that. You don't have a huge Ca demand so I don't see that as a problem right now. As time goes on and you add more corals, coralline starts to grow you might need to supplement your Ca in other ways. I didn't mean to scare in to thinking your reactor wouldn't keep up with ca. I should have said from the start that I didn't think it would keep up if the tank was FULLY stock with corals (lps, sps)...
I have the line running from my reactor going right to where the intake is for my skimmer pump. I would think the pump picks up most of the kalkwasser.