How to dose Kalkwasser - ACI Method
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- For this video, we got together with our good friend Chris Meckley of ACI Aquaculture to continue our Kalkwasser and higher pH revolution on how he incorporates Kalkwasser into his coral systems. Hopefully this video can also show how it can save you time and money by incorporating this into your system and also see things from the experiences and perspective of one of the most respected coral farmer in the industry.
Check it out and see if this can help you and comment down below!
Happy reefing!
Thanks Chris!
More Reefs/ACI collaborations, these are the best videos out there :D
Thank you they are in the works!
Been using Kalk since 2005, works great..
Thanks for a great VLOG
Chris is the guru that I listen to more than any other. More Chris plz
More Coming soon!
Thank you!
Thanks for your time . 🙏. I love your videos dedication and info.
You are very welcome. Im happy that you are enjoying and learning from them!
Hell yes I’ve been waiting for this
sorry for the delay! I hope you enjoy it and find it useful! :)
This are the kind of videos that I will like for them to be longer because they teach good. Keep them coming to us guys a lot of information here , so basically all I need to do is keep my CR running and my kalkwaser giving my sump the replenish water that was evaporated with RODI water through the kalk
thanks buddy. i try to find fine balance in these videos. Min is 10 mins. usually it's close to 20 mins each lol.
If it's redundant, I edit it out. Hopefully this was useful to you Javi.
@@Reefscom definitely one of the best video I’ve seen, keep them coming with more
Another great informative video. I dose alot considering the size of one tank because my chalice and porities are the size of salad and dinner plates. My favia, softball size. So i dose alot of 2 part. I notice seasonal growth typically in the Spring and Fall. Maybe it’s just my tank, but find it interesting.
love this video, thanks for all in the info Chris
I'm happy you liked it! Thank you for watching. :)
Chris, respect for sharing your experience 👏you gave me lots of good ideas and observations 👍
Thanks
Awesome video!
Ty!
Literally just got done reading about kalk in Julian sprungs “The reef aquarium” vol. 3
The Bible! :) fun fact! Julian brought over kalk to united States after his friend Peter started to use it in home aquarium.
Check out his kalkwasser video that I made 4 years ago on this channel. Both part 1 and 2.
@@Reefscom dude there’s so much information in this! I’m loving it. I will also check out those videos! Love when I get to hear to Chris talk. Hope more are in the future. Keep up the good work!
@@NanoJoe thank you. more are coming. Meanwhile check out dozen videos that we did with Chris about different corals and fish! :)
Thanks for the tips. I am going to try this for the fourth time. I crashed my tank three times before using the same brs kalkwassrr. I threw it away and just bout two little fishes kalk and will tale it slow, monitor the ph amd alkalinity.
Foruth time is the charm! Fingers crossed for you!
I appreciate the effort, but I was hoping to hear more detailed instructions on exactly how you dosed the kalk, in top off or a different line? Just wasn’t very detailed.
hi, he doses it by pH on his Apex system. I will try to make another trip up there to make little more in depth video about it.
It's just amazing, I just discover your method last night. On my side I use calcium reactor for my 380 gal reef tank. Did you have negative effects at the beginning when you adjust for the proper dosing of kalk? From what I understand with your method, I should disconnect my calcium reactor and use only kalk for a better result? Do you add kalk at night only, all time or twice a day? Is there a danger for calcium precipitation if you add too much too fast? Thanks for your advice
I will forward the message to Chris to have tour questions answered. :)
great video..
Thank you!
genious!
My tank is slowly starting to crash coz I’m going in year 12 now and have so little time, finally setting up kalk and mag dosing today tho and once it’s all dialled in, it should be much easier to keep everything alive
I’ve put off switching from 2 part for this no one can explain it like Chris 🌱🌿🌴
You should check out telegraham. He is dosing kalk slurry. I believe he is doing 1 cup of of Calcium Hydroxide to one gallon which is 24x the concentration of typical mix. He uses a Jebao SLW-10 to keep it constantly mixed.
Hey Nick. Jim and I are good friends actually and talk quiet often. I know of his slurry method. :)
I’ll have to chat with him more. Never used kalk slurry because of the concern of rapid swings. The amount of kalk that is not dissolved in the slurry could potentially increase your PH and even alk rapidly when added to your system water. If swings happen rapidly, animals generally don’t respond well.
@@aciaquaculture Thanks for the info. How are you mixing your Kalk? Are mixing with pumps or by hand. If by pump, what kind are you using and how long to they last?
Can you do a video,more on the equipment needed to do this method.. For those on a budget and have smaller systems 200 gal and less. controller / ph probe / dosing pump.
Hello Chris, thank you for above precious informations and I would like to make a daring try(due to the likelyhood of high Alk changes). Im having a 20gallon ios tank my question is how should I take care of the trace element
Hi chris I’m dosing kalc through the nite (12 hrs ) by a dossing pump , my main concern is I haven’t got a apex . So no turning off or on , my evaporation is 3 1/2 ltes per day so I just does the kalcwasser no r/o . Can you see this being a problem as my kalc may rise 🤷🏻♂️😀🏴👍
Hey Andrew, I will have Chris come and answer your question shortly.
Is there a link to exactly how to dose the kalk
That video is actually being made right now.
Chris. If you have Kalk settlement in the bottom of your container does that mean you don’t need to add more Kalk? That all you need to do is add RODI and stir it up?
Cool video, like to see the equipment behind systems, how much kalk are you dosing in 24 hrs to how much system water volume?, do you dose over night to offset ph swings ?.
I have reduced our kalk dosing to 12 hours overnight on our 600 gallon system, even with a calcium reactor running at 200ml a minute the ph was topping over 8.4 by the end of the lighting period under 6 haldes which I thought is too high, so it's 12 hours of calcium reactor in the day and 12 hours of kalk by night on our system.
Reach out to Chris on his fb aci page and he would be happy to answer all your questions!
@@Reefscom cool thanks
@@spskeeper2060 very welcome! :)
Only reason i dont dose kalk is because i dont have a controller so cant have a constant watch. Btw whats your opinion on kalk slurry thats been going around?
He doesn't like the slurry method.
Never used kalk slurry because of the concern of rapid swings. The amount of kalk that is not dissolved in the slurry could potentially increase your PH and even alk rapidly when added to your system water. If swings happen rapidly, animals generally don’t respond well.
@@aciaquaculture im late to respond but what to do once the saturated kalk being dosed is equal to the evaporation rate of your tank? What happens when thats not enough to maintain the alk and cal levels?
I began this method and it seems like every so often, during the day my PH drops down below where I want it and my controller needs to frequently dose the kalk to bring it back up. I’m chalking this up to seasonal changes when I have windows open/closed. Since Chris programmed the Apex to only dose at night, should I follow suit and just deal with the occasional PH dip, or should I just keep my controller programmed to maintain 8.3 24/7 like it’s been? Thanks for any help of anyone can respond !
Kalk does not add any Mag or any other trace elements
does that matter though ?
do you need to dose those Mg and Trace regularly ?
if yes then what do you use and how do you dose them ?
Kalk does not add any mag or any other trace. He doses them accordingly using weekly icp using captiv8 aquaculture 's traces and mag as needed. For simplicity, I use their isol8, which is a combined trace and metals, and follow their direction.
Hey Chris....many people now are dosing the kalk slurry using a pH probe. What do you see as negatives to this?
He told me before the reason for that is because cal. hydroxide isn't totally water soluble. It's not going to effect things in long term but it will bound to something whether it's your pump, your rocks or your pipes. You will have to clean it up later.
Hey Burt,
Never used kalk slurry because of the concern of rapid swings. The amount of kalk that is not dissolved in the slurry could potentially increase your PH and even alk rapidly when added to your system water. If swings happen rapidly, animals generally don’t respond well.
Kalk slurry has been very stable for me. I’m way more comfortable with it than potassium hydroxide. Talk about potential swings.
how long will kalkwasser last in a sealed 5 gallon bucket? And can I just keep adding and mixing in the bucket as long as I keep it sealed? And just siphon out the middle solution not from the top or bottom of the bucket? Or should I dump everything out clean the bucket and start fresh everytime?
That depends how much oxygen gets in. I have a pH meter and it lasts about a week before I have to put another scoop in. There is mixed theories about this but Chris says that you don't have to take anything out.
@@Reefscom alright thanks
@@charlescox4213 you are very welcome!
Generally what’s at the bottom of the container is undissolved kalk. When you add the water you can mix that first until it’s in solution. Then you can add more kalk to the bucket until you reach the 12.44. Check your PH and as long as it’s reading 12.3 - 12.44 your good. Now if you add water to the undissolved settlement and it does not dissolve, it’s likely impurities in the batch of kalk you are using and I would recommend dumping that out. Like everything else, you get what you pay for. Hope this helps.
@@Reefscom Oxygen?🤔 Nope try cabon dioxide not Oxygen.
I want to know what is Chris Meckley opinion on the new Brightwell Boost pH+ INCREASER witch is essentially transferring his idea(potassium hydroxide) into a hobby grade formula, easier to dose.
Reach out to him on Facebook or Instagram and see if he's familiar with that product. :)
I tried and sucked saw no use for it, I switched to Randy's 2-part with Sodium Hydroxide and that has a PH of 14 so made a huge difference in reaching 8.5-8.6 ph
What kalkwasser brand do you recommend I buy ?
I personally use Julian Sprung's kalk and captivate aquaculture's kalk.
@@Reefscom
Awesome. Thanks for info !
@@TheHelicapt you are very welcome!
I dose kalk and remove equal parts tank water, this way your always in balance,
Great video! Listen to Chris, he knows his stuff :)
Does all kalk brands give you the same over all ph? Witch brand will give you the highest level? If I’m running full saturation of kalk. I can’t add anymore because evaporation rate is at max capacity what else can I do to raise ph higher?
They should all be around 12.444 pH. Every time I top off my reactor, my pH probe confirms similar numbers on 3 different brands that I have tried.
From this method, dosing kalkwasser to maintain ph. I can use my controller/ph monitor to dose kalk and keep ph in a range of 8.3-8.4, and over time alk/calcium will level itself out?
Depends on how much it's being dosed, yes.
What's the Ph of the kalkwasser mix solution?!
Hi, it's 12.4444.
@reefs thanks for replying, my mix is around 12.6~12.8 Ph, will that affect it much?! I monitor my Phand it's around 8.5 in day time, when light are off it comes down to around 8.3.
@sa7el it's within the normal +- variance of the pH probe. 12.8 being on a bit high range. (Have you recalibrated?) It's supposed to be 12.444 but mine often goes up to 12.6 ish on my probe.
How is your corals reacting to the pH increase? Also your dKh isn't going crazy right?
@reefs corals are looking good, my alk is around 8.3~8.5. I also dose All For Reef. But after starting dosing kalk, I'm dosing less than half of All For Reef than I used to.
@sa7el make sense as kalk is calcium hydroxide that provides calcium and alkalinity.
is that ok to run kalkwasser even your doing balling method like AF 123? or should i replaced the balling method with kalkwasser?
you can still do balling. But kalk will reduce the amount of overall being dosed.
Im not aware of the balling method enough to comment.
How to dose?? sorry where on this video does it take you through the process???
So if im using the balling method I can dose kalk aswell? Providing its calculated correctly?
Yes, you can.
@@Reefscom wow super quick reply 😁 thanks. Love the channel 👍
@@bobbyknox9258 you are very welcome! I try to answer quickly because I know I would want answers fast lol.
Thanks for the kind words!
Personally I’m not aware of the balling method enough to comment
@@aciaquaculture so why comment at all then? 🤣
What is this superficial carbonate business, Im curious to know more about that.
Ok most of this video talks about kalkwasser and includes info that has been around for years. It gives a couple of tips on what they are doing but no details. If you’re are going to label a video the ACI method then give us that method everybody already knows kalk raises alk and ph that’s why we use it!
This video doesn't actually detail anything. Chris talks about the benefits of kalkwasser and discusses the results they've had with it. He maybe gives one or two small technical details. But yet again I have not seen Chris give any details of exactly what he is doing here. He just says he is using potassium hydroxide and that it is dangerous. Chris, if you are going to title a video "HOW TO dose kalkwasser" we need you to actually give concise step by step instructions on what your setup is. What equipment, what parameters, what interval. Are you using a kalkwasser reactor? What pumps are you using? Show us how you mix it, show is how you dose it. Don't just say "we recommend you use a dosing pump". This isn't a how to, and every single RUclips video you guys make about this supposedly awesome PH boosting method gives absolutely zero detail. You just give yourselves a pat on the back without telling anyone more than very generic basics.
Yeah. Kalkwasser is good. We get it.
Thanks I thought I was the only one confused as to the lack of actual instructions here and clarity to how to dose it without overflowing your sump since he says he doses to take over evaporation also instead of using rodi.
kalkwasser is balanced calcium and alkalinity. You said your alk will initially rise and you will have low calcium. That is not possible. They will both rise and the corals will use them at the same rate because they are balanced and taken at the same ratio from the corals.
I’m not sure why you would think it is not possible? Calcium Hydroxide is 2 hydroxide with 1 Ca so for you to say they are balanced is completely false, so I’m not sure where you are going with this? I have help from a Marine Scientist and a physicist that made the science clear to me.
I didn’t misspeak about the rise of Alk and the fall of Ca.
I saw it with my own eyes. The variables with water chemistry and the life in it make every system different and that is the difference between a chemist telling you what is going to happen and real marine science taking place.
@@aciaquaculture I love how my comment which contained nothing that could even be considered the slightest bit rude was deleted because I proved how ACI was wrong with references cited.
@@jarede2708 I don’t know anything about what was deleted. Let’s just agree to disagree. ✌️
@@jarede2708 hi nothing was deleted on my end. I assure you. I will see if something is being held by RUclips.
@@Reefscom I put a link in their which held it up a few times. After I took the link out, it posted and stayed posted for at least an hour.