You might not be a scientist, but you definitely are a "successful" professional coral farmer and I trust your opinion and knowledge! Keep it coming brother. Thank you very much for your hard work!
Very well done and informative. I really liked how you showed the same principle at various scales. How a 2000 gallon system work and how a 75 gallon system work is the same in principle, but the tools change, the scale changes, and sometimes the actual methodology changes. Being able to show both a commercial scale and a hobby scale with the same principle is extremely informative. On a personal note, I love my IceCap Kalk stir. Though I do wish the outlet was a bit larger on it.
Sounds like an opportunity for aDIY projects. But really it shouldn't move that much water. If you need to move more water you probably need a bigger reactor for your size aquarium
Kalk is AMAZING! 6g/gallon is roughly 1 teaspoon, but with about 45 m/l of vinegar you can supersaturate to 14g/gallon or 1 tablespoon. After that you just gotta dose more often, or supplement with another product like all 4 reef or whatever you prefer. I like All 4 Reef as it has trace elements like iodine and strontium.
Josh is the best at explaining things very well to new and experienced hobbyist. I run Kalk via a 30 gallon sealed container with a versa pump and dose 10000ML per day to maintain my Alk. Eventually it will max out and then I will go to doser or Calcium reactor but until that time I get a great boost to my PH and for the cost it can't be beat.
Fantastic video, I cannot begin to thank you guys and josh on how much I liked this video. Perfect in depth explanation. Most RUclips videos in reefing right now dont have any good info like this. Please do more of this
@@jdearel1I appreciate your knowledge and approach to explain why you guys do it but also at times will admit, I don't know why, but we do it and it works too. Cheers
Kalk for the win! I was so happy when I heard you guys use pounds of the stuff. Ph can be tough for beginner reefers to raise/stabilize. Also Kalk is corrosive to plastic and builds up deposits so you will be cleaning sumps a pumps. Once you use it and see the results you be sold for life. Amazing video. When you reef for years upon years there are days where you're tank's are not the first thought when we wake up. For me this channel puts me right back in my zone and I'm very thankful. Vic, you an you're crew are some of the best!
This is excellent information right here! I've been using KW intermittently for decades. I'm downsized right at the moment dosing sumpless breeder tanks. Right now I'm keeping it simple with ESV B-ionic on dosing pumps but KW is in the future again. Thank you for posting this!
Great video actually reminds me that my previous tank with SPS did very well when I had kalkwasser going 24 hours a day. Going to do this on my new setup
This video was really awesome for me. I have a reefing style/goal that is really similar to Josh’s so I’ve really latched onto learning everything I can from him! This reef will be my first tank ever on kalk. The kalk reactor just makes sense to me! Thanks WWC for making these videos happen. Thank you Josh for telling it how it is and making it easy!!
Great video! I would love to see some videos where you help new reefers who are struggling with their tanks and show updates as they become more comfortable with the hobby!
Thanks for the information. I definitely shoudl be adding some more components like A, B and C . One thing I alwasy make sure is my salinity is good weekly. Having LPS and SPS corals, gotta be careful. lol
Well it's working for you, and that's not debatable. The purpose here is to help others see the value of doing things just slightly better if you so choose.
So, if one had like a 25G IM lagoon with say a dozen small SPS frags, I gather the approach here would be to add Kalk to the top off water (which tank might evap 500 ml a day - so a 1 gallon jug would handle a week), and maybe start with like 1/4 teaspoon of Kalk to see how it affects Kalk and CA over a week? If you are lagging, up that Kalk the next week; if numbers are rising, scale back the Kalk to like 1/8 teaspoon. Over a long period of time, you'd probably get to a fully saturated solution of about 2 teaspons per gallon (6 grams). Then, if you have a peculiar system that uses more a bit more Kalk than Ca, do a little added supplementation with some Alk buffer. Is that the gist of your approach?
Great video. I’m about to start dosing AFR for a smaller amount of baby coral. Two torches, a hammer, a candy cane and some mushrooms. I also have a crocea clam. So I’ll be using AFR to work this out. I do have Kalk+ 2 but have been scared to use it with a lot of reading of overdosing.
Thank you Josh , I just started with kalkwasser , I was nervous but feel better about dosing . Also the way you explain on how to make adjustments is straightforward. I always test so that is not a problem . Hopefully this will help getting my corals to color up and flourish.
I have found mixing at max Saturation to be an easy solution for me. I mix a 17g airtight dogfood container with RODI eyeball around 3/4cup of kalk powder dump it in & give it a good mix I then let it settle this usually lasts around 2 weeks at 4ml a minute. I like this because I am not concerned with adding too much or too little Kalk, I also dont stress over remixing what kalk powder was left over from the last batch on the bottom. I haven't really noticed a drop off in alk concentration over a 2 week period not sure if that has to do with the container being airtight and lack of perception.
I'm a kalk fan as well. I mix 1/3 cup per 2000ml stored in a 5-liter reservoir. I have a cheap, $11 timed powerhead in the reservoir at night (when the PH falls) and a Neptune PH-probe actives a peristaltic at a 5-second runtime (then 5-mins Off) into the overflow on a Red Sea 165. Water top-off done by other means. So in short, I use 100% of the kalk as a slow-drip-slurry on demand at night only. No prblms. PH is 8.1-8.2 and Alk is 8.3-8.7 Very reassuring video presentation here... Thank you for helping us. 🌴👌
So I have a question. I currently have an 80 gallon system that I want to me a mixed reef SPS dominate. I have all systems in place, Avast Kalkstirrer pulling water from the ATO resevorior controlled by a Neptune DOS and Maintained by the Trident. I keep the PH of the reactor pegged at 12PH and know when it drops below 12 to add more Kalkwasser to the reactor. My question is what is the proper way to administer the kalkwasser. Josh says that they do a constant 25ml/min on their system. So was this determined by the evaporation rate of the tank? I think that is where I am confused. When I first set my system up, I took a gallon of water converted that to Milliliters/divided it in half and was using that as my starting dose from the Kalkstirrer. Sort of half evaporation from ATO and half from the Kalkstirrer. My Alk always seems to see creep up and I have the trident to set to shut off the stirrer if Alk in the tank goes above 9. So I am just not dialed in correctly with how much kalkwasser is beeing administered to the tank? Please help me understand what I might be doing wrong.
Great video! Been thinking of trying Kalk. How did you figure out what your evap rate was to know how much fluid you could dose? Doesn't the amount change from Summer to Winter months?
Well you know what you add regularly right? That's your staying point. Make a mark on the glass and set a rate that you think will work. Check back, if it's high turn it down if it's low turn it up.
I've been struggling with PH for years, at night it would drop to 7.6 and throughout the day it would get to 7.85, just started using an ATO and after adding kalkwasser in it i'm at 8 and could not be happier!
I was space limited so I went with auto dosing of red seas alkalinity which doesn’t require stirring So far it keeps my alk in the range I need at around 30 ml per day That gets expensive so I buy the big jugs
Anemones are not super demanding for the most par when it comes to PAR(except for Magnificas!). They will take anywhere between 250 down to 80 without an issue. Keep the blue spectrum channels turned up all the way for the pop!
If you are aware of how much you add daily that's the number. Make a mark with your sharpie. To of your tank daily to that line. Do the math at the end of the week. That's your marker. It's very very simple
Loved this video with great information from the one and only Josh! I wanted to get your guy's thoughts as well as everyone else here on the channel. When you guys dose Kalk in your ATO reservoir, the thick sludge of Kalk that sits on the bottom builds up. It doesn't absorb in the water. What do you do with it? Suck it out with a pump or just leave it? Also where is your return pump located for your ATO? Because mine is sitting down in the bottom of my ATO in that sludge of Kalk, so is it dumping a ton of concentrated Kalk water back into my system? Hope this makes sense and I appreciate everyone's thoughts.
Water can only hold so much kalk until it "drops out" of solution (meaning it's not dissolved in the water and just settles at the bottom.) This concentration is around 6g (or 2 tsp) per gallon. By having kalk precipitated at the bottom of your reservoir, you are actually insuring your kalk solution is always the same (max) concentration, and actually providing stability!
I would love to hear more about using ReBorn or some kind of Calcium reactor media as substrate. Do you see an impact on your phosphate? Most in the hobby have sand but the Ca Reactor media makes so much sense to increase flow. Have you used someing like "Matrix" as substrate or maybe a mixture of the two?
dude this is really helpful, ive had problems with anything growing for years while testing and dosing calcium, mag, and alk. All in a 15 gal system with no luck. All of my coral ended up dead
@@WorldWideCorals Can i add it with a dosing pump? How much per gallon is a safe starting point? I have a new system going with some frags so im trying to get them going! I appreciate you for your help
I’m confused, how do account for changes in evaporation? In the summer my AC runs more (Florida’s home) my evaporation goes up compared to winter. I have my ATO supply my kalk. I use Vics method, but mine is based on evaporation.
So you don’t run a ATO like the tunze osmolator for replenishing fresh water, instead you use the versa drip? On my tank I have a container for my ATO water and a separate container where I dose kalk with my versa. I only dose 1.10mL/per minute because I don’t have many corals. How would I be able to figure out how much kalk to mix with my 5gal ATO bucket? Also doesn’t the tank evaporate different amounts everyday?
Hi. Love the videos. I know you guys have covered nearly everything there is to cover but youve said before you can tell a tank is doing well by the look off the corals. Any chance of a video to explain what you look for in the corals. Growth.. ( what to expect a corals growth rate would be expected to be in a healthy reef from different corals) and colour etc. Ive understood your videos but can only compare coral growth too previous growth. Thanks.
So could I mix the brightwell kalkwasser in my ATO reservoir (rodi water) and get the benefits like that? Would that help get my pH to 8.3 (it’s 7.8 rn) and get the alkalinity stable?
W don't dump the kalk into the return chamber. With the combination of the warmth and the moving parts that would cause expedited decay on your equipment. We dump in a quick moving area of the sump or overflow
@@WorldWideCorals is it okay to try different kalk products? I currently use Brightwell Kalk+2 on my tank and recently picked up a tub of TLF kalk on sale. I haven’t begun using TLF yet, but wanted to see if there is a risk switching to a different kalk brand.
This was a great video Josh! I'm currently dosing kalk from a 5g container with a kamoer pump direct to my RS170. I dose that during lights out and All for Reef during the light period. This has me thinking I should be dosing the kalk a bit faster than the 1.3ml/h I am. Thoughts?
Where can you get those 30g extra tall glass tanks like under the farm systems? I’m local to you guys, I haven’t seen them around Orlando though. I need one for my new build!
Josh you are a reefing hero! Could listen to your knowledge for Hours! I have a question… I’m thinking of starting to use kalk. I have a 20 gallon mixed reef and would like the benefits of increased PH from kalk. I’ve heard using kalk in ATO is a bad idea as it creates an inconsistent PH level due to changes in evaporation due to variables out of my control. (Room temp, humidity) Have you found any issues in using kalk in a ATO for a smaller tanks? I planned to run my ATO as normal and start dosing kalk on a doser at as close to evaporation consumption as possible, along with the coral essentials 2/3 part. Would u keep it simple and using in ATO and risk the slight PH inconsistency Or dial it in with a doser?
I think you should omit the ATO you would easily be able to do this with a doser alone. Small tanks are limited by evaporation. Because you don't use much make up water you will only be using small amounts of kalk. Which is fine because you won't need so much alk. If you can force evaporation you will benefit much more.
@@WorldWideCorals was asking if you’re adding 6 grams of kalwasser for the how many gallons you’re mixing container is or are you adding 6 grams for how many gallons the aquarium is
I dont use so much kalk to make full saturated solution , still always have white dust on the bottom :/ why ? If I give RO and stir it will it dissolve ? Ty dor the answer I love your videos guys
@@jdearel1 and should I Just empty it then time to time ? I tought what is on the bottom what didnt dissloved ( sry for my english) and if I pour RO on it and stir then it will dissolve and disappier
So what if your system uses alkalinity but very little calcium? My tank is all softies. If I dosed Kalkwasser, I’m afraid my calcium would shoot sky high….
@@WorldWideCorals Is it only in your grow out tank currently? I don't see it on the WWC website. Any chance I can purchase a head?? edit: oh I see it on the website, but "sold out" :(
Hello I am having trouble with my reef tank. I purchased beginner corals from you guys, but I am now sure that the nitrogen cycle did not complete, I have high nitrites and low ammonia, I am wondering if I should do a large water change or if I should leave it and dose seachem prime or similar products
My PH has been fluctuating and got pretty low, wondering if that had to do with too much ammonia to begin with, but I never have dosed ammonia. My main concern is that all the nitrites are now dead and stalled the cycle. Debating if I should dose ammonia but I’m afraid that will raise my nitrites to dangerous levels
You might not be a scientist, but you definitely are a "successful" professional coral farmer and I trust your opinion and knowledge! Keep it coming brother. Thank you very much for your hard work!
Thank you for the love and support
Best reef video I’ve seen. Really emphasises the need for testing. As he said, if you don’t test something bad will happen.
Josh is the man! Would love for him to start a podcast.
You never know!
Yes, please!!!🙏🙏🙏
Amazing video, it would be nice to see a guide on how to properly calculate the amount of kalk for nano tanks. 🙏🏼👍
Very well done and informative.
I really liked how you showed the same principle at various scales. How a 2000 gallon system work and how a 75 gallon system work is the same in principle, but the tools change, the scale changes, and sometimes the actual methodology changes. Being able to show both a commercial scale and a hobby scale with the same principle is extremely informative.
On a personal note, I love my IceCap Kalk stir. Though I do wish the outlet was a bit larger on it.
Thank you for the love and support!
Sounds like an opportunity for aDIY projects. But really it shouldn't move that much water. If you need to move more water you probably need a bigger reactor for your size aquarium
Kalk is AMAZING! 6g/gallon is roughly 1 teaspoon, but with about 45 m/l of vinegar you can supersaturate to 14g/gallon or 1 tablespoon. After that you just gotta dose more often, or supplement with another product like all 4 reef or whatever you prefer. I like All 4 Reef as it has trace elements like iodine and strontium.
10:05 is that a torch? love seeing nice plump torches and thats a big 1!
Kalkwaser is awesome I started using it because of Vik on his tank build. Ive seen awesome results on the aquarium! Thanks Vik and Josh!
Josh is the best at explaining things very well to new and experienced hobbyist. I run Kalk via a 30 gallon sealed container with a versa pump and dose 10000ML per day to maintain my Alk. Eventually it will max out and then I will go to doser or Calcium reactor but until that time I get a great boost to my PH and for the cost it can't be beat.
This new series with Josh is fantastic and we are so happy everyone is enjoying it!
Absolutely great video, I’m going to go back to kalk, currently using SC 2 part.
You'll notice the growth spurt!
Fantastic video, I cannot begin to thank you guys and josh on how much I liked this video. Perfect in depth explanation. Most RUclips videos in reefing right now dont have any good info like this. Please do more of this
Thanks for the feedback. I like doing these when they are useful and appreciated.
@@jdearel1I appreciate your knowledge and approach to explain why you guys do it but also at times will admit, I don't know why, but we do it and it works too. Cheers
Kalk for the win! I was so happy when I heard you guys use pounds of the stuff. Ph can be tough for beginner reefers to raise/stabilize. Also Kalk is corrosive to plastic and builds up deposits so you will be cleaning sumps a pumps. Once you use it and see the results you be sold for life. Amazing video. When you reef for years upon years there are days where you're tank's are not the first thought when we wake up. For me this channel puts me right back in my zone and I'm very thankful. Vic, you an you're crew are some of the best!
🙌
This is excellent information right here! I've been using KW intermittently for decades. I'm downsized right at the moment dosing sumpless breeder tanks. Right now I'm keeping it simple with ESV B-ionic on dosing pumps but KW is in the future again. Thank you for posting this!
Great video actually reminds me that my previous tank with SPS did very well when I had kalkwasser going 24 hours a day. Going to do this on my new setup
Well done! I loved this simple focused and realistic breakdown! I hope you do the same thing with the other key elements.
Which others are your suggesting
This video was really awesome for me. I have a reefing style/goal that is really similar to Josh’s so I’ve really latched onto learning everything I can from him! This reef will be my first tank ever on kalk. The kalk reactor just makes sense to me! Thanks WWC for making these videos happen. Thank you Josh for telling it how it is and making it easy!!
we do the exact same thing !! make daily in 40 gallon closed vat ! dosed with industrial stenner doser
The best way to do it for sure brother! Hope to see you here soon 😁 - Alex
Great video! I would love to see some videos where you help new reefers who are struggling with their tanks and show updates as they become more comfortable with the hobby!
Thanks for watching! I'll pass the idea along.
Using kalkwasser and balling is really the best solution for high end tanks
We're huge fans of running kalk! Thanks for watching.
Thanks for the information. I definitely shoudl be adding some more components like A, B and C . One thing I alwasy make sure is my salinity is good weekly. Having LPS and SPS corals, gotta be careful. lol
Well it's working for you, and that's not debatable. The purpose here is to help others see the value of doing things just slightly better if you so choose.
A simple and well laid out explanation, thank you josh
Thank you for the feedback and for watching!
Well done Josh in driving the point home on how important keeping your alkalinity stable is.
Thank you!
Great stuff Josh 👍🏻👌🏼 team kalk for the win 🙏🏼
💯%!!!
videos on different coral placement would be sweet
So, if one had like a 25G IM lagoon with say a dozen small SPS frags, I gather the approach here would be to add Kalk to the top off water (which tank might evap 500 ml a day - so a 1 gallon jug would handle a week), and maybe start with like 1/4 teaspoon of Kalk to see how it affects Kalk and CA over a week? If you are lagging, up that Kalk the next week; if numbers are rising, scale back the Kalk to like 1/8 teaspoon. Over a long period of time, you'd probably get to a fully saturated solution of about 2 teaspons per gallon (6 grams). Then, if you have a peculiar system that uses more a bit more Kalk than Ca, do a little added supplementation with some Alk buffer.
Is that the gist of your approach?
Great tutorial Josh
Thanks for watching!
Great video. I’m about to start dosing AFR for a smaller amount of baby coral. Two torches, a hammer, a candy cane and some mushrooms. I also have a crocea clam. So I’ll be using AFR to work this out. I do have Kalk+ 2 but have been scared to use it with a lot of reading of overdosing.
Thank you Josh , I just started with kalkwasser , I was nervous but feel better about dosing . Also the way you explain on how to make adjustments is straightforward. I always test so that is not a problem . Hopefully this will help getting my corals to color up and flourish.
Good luck! Although I don't think you will need it. It's all about effort and understanding
Josh, You are an awesome dude ! I admire Your approach to explain stuff. Great video !
Josh is the best!
I have found mixing at max Saturation to be an easy solution for me. I mix a 17g airtight dogfood container with RODI eyeball around 3/4cup of kalk powder dump it in & give it a good mix I then let it settle this usually lasts around 2 weeks at 4ml a minute. I like this because I am not concerned with adding too much or too little Kalk, I also dont stress over remixing what kalk powder was left over from the last batch on the bottom. I haven't really noticed a drop off in alk concentration over a 2 week period not sure if that has to do with the container being airtight and lack of perception.
There is just something about it. Once you go kalk you never go back
This looks like it's going to be an awesome series! Keep 'em coming!! ❤ One thing I need help with right now is installing a UV sterilizer. 😒
Send us a email about the Sterilizer
@WWC; when you show close ups on corals, adding closed captions with the name for the coral would be great.
I'm a kalk fan as well. I mix 1/3 cup per 2000ml stored in a 5-liter reservoir. I have a cheap, $11 timed powerhead in the reservoir at night (when the PH falls) and a Neptune PH-probe actives a peristaltic at a 5-second runtime (then 5-mins Off) into the overflow on a Red Sea 165. Water top-off done by other means. So in short, I use 100% of the kalk as a slow-drip-slurry on demand at night only. No prblms. PH is 8.1-8.2 and Alk is 8.3-8.7 Very reassuring video presentation here... Thank you for helping us. 🌴👌
And I bet you wouldn't do it any other way. It's a magic solution haha.
I ran the tank 1yr as a beginner with zero control over PH. Duh. Then a friend recommended Kalk. The light came on Big Time. Magic stuff for sure !!
I’m still learning is this just for Ph control and your getting alk control as well with this method? Wanting to dive into kalk been using 2 part
Looks Great - But What ablut supplements / traceelements they dont Come with kalkwasser. How do you add theese / What is added ?
Great video :)
It would be super cool to have the corals labeled more in the videos. I always see corals I love and dont know what they are.
So I have a question. I currently have an 80 gallon system that I want to me a mixed reef SPS dominate. I have all systems in place, Avast Kalkstirrer pulling water from the ATO resevorior controlled by a Neptune DOS and Maintained by the Trident. I keep the PH of the reactor pegged at 12PH and know when it drops below 12 to add more Kalkwasser to the reactor. My question is what is the proper way to administer the kalkwasser. Josh says that they do a constant 25ml/min on their system. So was this determined by the evaporation rate of the tank? I think that is where I am confused. When I first set my system up, I took a gallon of water converted that to Milliliters/divided it in half and was using that as my starting dose from the Kalkstirrer. Sort of half evaporation from ATO and half from the Kalkstirrer. My Alk always seems to see creep up and I have the trident to set to shut off the stirrer if Alk in the tank goes above 9. So I am just not dialed in correctly with how much kalkwasser is beeing administered to the tank? Please help me understand what I might be doing wrong.
Great video! Been thinking of trying Kalk. How did you figure out what your evap rate was to know how much fluid you could dose? Doesn't the amount change from Summer to Winter months?
Well you know what you add regularly right? That's your staying point. Make a mark on the glass and set a rate that you think will work. Check back, if it's high turn it down if it's low turn it up.
Limewater is amazing! it covers evaporation, alkalinity, calcium, and pH.
Sure does!
I've been struggling with PH for years, at night it would drop to 7.6 and throughout the day it would get to 7.85, just started using an ATO and after adding kalkwasser in it i'm at 8 and could not be happier!
Glad to hear it. Kalk is great for numerous reasons!!!
How do you know how much power to use with a kalk stirrer?
I was space limited so I went with auto dosing of red seas alkalinity which doesn’t require stirring
So far it keeps my alk in the range I need at around 30 ml per day
That gets expensive so I buy the big jugs
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Excellent video. Thank you
Thanks for another informative video.
Of course, this is why we keep the videos pumping out! Thanks for watching.
@@WorldWideCorals Has the second video in Georgia been released yet.
How about one on lighting for looks with anemone? Finding that sweet spot with PAR, but also allowing the colors to pop.
Anemones are not super demanding for the most par when it comes to PAR(except for Magnificas!). They will take anywhere between 250 down to 80 without an issue. Keep the blue spectrum channels turned up all the way for the pop!
How do you calculate your evaporation rate? I would hate to overfill my tank! Also this type of video rocks.
I use my red sea ato app which gives daily top off information. That's how I would do it.
If you are aware of how much you add daily that's the number. Make a mark with your sharpie. To of your tank daily to that line. Do the math at the end of the week. That's your marker. It's very very simple
Loved this video with great information from the one and only Josh! I wanted to get your guy's thoughts as well as everyone else here on the channel. When you guys dose Kalk in your ATO reservoir, the thick sludge of Kalk that sits on the bottom builds up. It doesn't absorb in the water. What do you do with it? Suck it out with a pump or just leave it? Also where is your return pump located for your ATO? Because mine is sitting down in the bottom of my ATO in that sludge of Kalk, so is it dumping a ton of concentrated Kalk water back into my system? Hope this makes sense and I appreciate everyone's thoughts.
Water can only hold so much kalk until it "drops out" of solution (meaning it's not dissolved in the water and just settles at the bottom.) This concentration is around 6g (or 2 tsp) per gallon. By having kalk precipitated at the bottom of your reservoir, you are actually insuring your kalk solution is always the same (max) concentration, and actually providing stability!
I would love to hear more about using ReBorn or some kind of Calcium reactor media as substrate. Do you see an impact on your phosphate? Most in the hobby have sand but the Ca Reactor media makes so much sense to increase flow. Have you used someing like "Matrix" as substrate or maybe a mixture of the two?
Great video! What a great teacher 👏
Thank you!
triton's core 7 keeps alk stable like a rock.
💪💪
Where do you get or how do you make that bulkhead cap???
What Alk level do you target at WWC?
8-9 is the key numbers we look for
Awesome!
Thank you
dude this is really helpful, ive had problems with anything growing for years while testing and dosing calcium, mag, and alk. All in a 15 gal system with no luck. All of my coral ended up dead
Give kalk a try, but keep in mind that you can easily overdose it on such a small water volume.
@@WorldWideCorals Can i add it with a dosing pump? How much per gallon is a safe starting point? I have a new system going with some frags so im trying to get them going! I appreciate you for your help
This is really helpful!
Happy it could help you
I’m confused, how do account for changes in evaporation? In the summer my AC runs more (Florida’s home) my evaporation goes up compared to winter. I have my ATO supply my kalk. I use Vics method, but mine is based on evaporation.
All for Reef is perfect for smaller tanks.
It is great
Terrific advice!
I was going to try until I read your comment. What was your experience?
Thank you for watching!
My alkalinty is too high! (16) How can I get it down without lowering my PH!??
So you don’t run a ATO like the tunze osmolator for replenishing fresh water, instead you use the versa drip? On my tank I have a container for my ATO water and a separate container where I dose kalk with my versa. I only dose 1.10mL/per minute because I don’t have many corals. How would I be able to figure out how much kalk to mix with my 5gal ATO bucket? Also doesn’t the tank evaporate different amounts everyday?
Geo’s Reef has a nice KalkRx
Geo has top notch equipment for sure!!!
What brand of Kalkwasser does WWC use?
What if I’m running Triton Method? Can you run Kalk when doing this?
Aw man, my favorite fish: nemateleotris helfrichi!
They're a gorgeous fish!
What’s the name of that Orange/Red Rhodactis at 9:15???😊
Jason Fox raunchy red
Hi. Love the videos. I know you guys have covered nearly everything there is to cover but youve said before you can tell a tank is doing well by the look off the corals. Any chance of a video to explain what you look for in the corals. Growth.. ( what to expect a corals growth rate would be expected to be in a healthy reef from different corals) and colour etc.
Ive understood your videos but can only compare coral growth too previous growth.
Thanks.
Oooo!!!! I really love this topic!!!! excellent suggestion?!!!
Using a kalk stirrer how often do you recommend adding kalk, should you remove some powder from the bottom periodically?
No need to remove the kalk sludge in the bottom, unless it goes high enough to go into the outflow, which can clog the line.
How often do you change the tubing on the versa& are you using the regular versa tubing or another tubing thx
Can you add other supplements to the kalk top off water. Ie: Iodide, mag etc
I really have no idea
It is best to add supplements directly to the tank.
So could I mix the brightwell kalkwasser in my ATO reservoir (rodi water) and get the benefits like that? Would that help get my pH to 8.3 (it’s 7.8 rn) and get the alkalinity stable?
Excellent content, I got a lot out of this
Thank you for Watching!
Great thx…putting the kaulk in you return … how often do you have to buy pumps for the top off container…
W don't dump the kalk into the return chamber. With the combination of the warmth and the moving parts that would cause expedited decay on your equipment. We dump in a quick moving area of the sump or overflow
The top off reservoirs that we use only have a pick up tube from the doser with only has silicon tubing contact
Great video Josh! I thought you guys used Two Little Fishies Kalk?
We have been using Brightwell Kalk+2 for about 10 years but from time to time we use TLF kalkwasser, Both are great products! Thank you for watching.
@@WorldWideCorals is it okay to try different kalk products? I currently use Brightwell Kalk+2 on my tank and recently picked up a tub of TLF kalk on sale. I haven’t begun using TLF yet, but wanted to see if there is a risk switching to a different kalk brand.
There really isn't much of a difference in the two products both are clean forms of kalk.
@@jdearel1 sounds good, thanks Josh!
This was a great video Josh! I'm currently dosing kalk from a 5g container with a kamoer pump direct to my RS170. I dose that during lights out and All for Reef during the light period. This has me thinking I should be dosing the kalk a bit faster than the 1.3ml/h I am. Thoughts?
Depends on how much water you evaporate. You can only pump in so much RO
A vid of trace elements would be nice
We do not dose/test trace elements unfortunately. Thanks for watching and for the suggestion!!!
Great video
Thank you so much!
Where can you get those 30g extra tall glass tanks like under the farm systems? I’m local to you guys, I haven’t seen them around Orlando though. I need one for my new build!
Shoot us over an email at contact@worldwidecorals.com and we can help you out!
This is excellent information and advice from a successful commercial operation. They are literally putting their money where there mouth is.
Balling method wouldn,t work with the Kalkwasser additive?
We do not use the balling method. Might work, but that is not something we have done.
Josh you are a reefing hero! Could listen to your knowledge for Hours!
I have a question…
I’m thinking of starting to use kalk.
I have a 20 gallon mixed reef and would like the benefits of increased PH from kalk.
I’ve heard using kalk in ATO is a bad idea as it creates an inconsistent PH level due to changes in evaporation due to variables out of my control. (Room temp, humidity)
Have you found any issues in using kalk in a ATO for a smaller tanks?
I planned to run my ATO as normal and start dosing kalk on a doser at as close to evaporation consumption as possible, along with the coral essentials 2/3 part.
Would u keep it simple and using in ATO and risk the slight PH inconsistency
Or dial it in with a doser?
Email us at contact@worldwidecorals.com with all the parameters you have and we can help you!
I think you should omit the ATO you would easily be able to do this with a doser alone.
Small tanks are limited by evaporation. Because you don't use much make up water you will only be using small amounts of kalk. Which is fine because you won't need so much alk. If you can force evaporation you will benefit much more.
Great series 🙌👏✌️
Thank you for watching!!!
What do you suggest for a 47 Gallon AIO? Should I add Kalkwasser to my ATO bottle? If so, how much?
What numbers are you getting right now?
Who’s the car enthusiast? I see those stickers!
Great video !
Thank you for watching!
So you add 6 grams per gallon of kalk for the size of the container or the whole water volume @worldwidecorals
Please shoot over a little more clarification on the question and we'd be glad to help you out!
@@WorldWideCorals was asking if you’re adding 6 grams of kalwasser for the how many gallons you’re mixing container is or are you adding 6 grams for how many gallons the aquarium is
Per solution
1 gallon =6grams
5gallon =30 grams
it is my goal to have vic come review my tank one day.
Be persistent it will pay off
Keep on working on it and let us know when it is ready!!!
I use all for reef I dose 15ml everyday at night and test once per week now I’m wondering if doing this would benefit me more than all for reef
The pH would be the only real advantage. That being said it's a relatively large advantage
What test kit do you use to measure Alk?
You can use Hanna, Salifert
You talk like a pro brother 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 nice video
Thank you!
👍 Explained very well. This helped me make a decision on a method to dose kalk with ATO. Thanks!
Just test. That's the answer!!
can u do a video on BIonic dosing alk ?
Hi John, thanks for watching! Dosing b-ionic is the same as dosing any 2-part additive. It would not be specific to that product.
Please suggest a good brand for kalkwasser.
We typically use Brightwell's kalk, mentioned in this video.
@@WorldWideCorals Thank you so much.
What is the torchs name at 11 minutes flat?
No name on that one just yet 😉. Good eye!!!
I dont use so much kalk to make full saturated solution , still always have white dust on the bottom :/ why ? If I give RO and stir it will it dissolve ? Ty dor the answer I love your videos guys
There is always going to be a biproduct of your solution that will never entirely mix regardless of how much you use
@@jdearel1 and should I Just empty it then time to time ? I tought what is on the bottom what didnt dissloved ( sry for my english) and if I pour RO on it and stir then it will dissolve and disappier
"When you fluff the bottom, it gets stiffer." 😂😂😂
You know it
So what if your system uses alkalinity but very little calcium? My tank is all softies. If I dosed Kalkwasser, I’m afraid my calcium would shoot sky high….
There’s other products that focus on ph and alkalinity. This is just if you have calcium based corals
@@phoenixking2406 is there a product you recommend? My tanks is pretty much zoas and torches.
@@user-fm4vj4ok1i ive been using eight.four and my soft corals are doing great.
What hammer is this at 15:51? Has WWC ever sold this one?
That is a holy grail hammer. We have sold a number of them, and still have some in the farm!
@@WorldWideCorals Is it only in your grow out tank currently? I don't see it on the WWC website. Any chance I can purchase a head??
edit: oh I see it on the website, but "sold out" :(
@@WhiteFireDragon We have them in our farm. Please email me at alex@worldwidecorals.com and I can take care of you.
What sand substrate are you using in the main display. Where the copper band is at ?
Not sure what time stamp you are referring to.
6:46
Caribsea special grade
@@jdearel1 can I use crush coral for reef tank ?
@@danriver12345 absolutely we use reborn calcium reactor media. This is nothing more than coral skeletons.
Would a Trachyphyllia survive with 40-50 par?
Absolutely, but it's on the lower side.
Hello I am having trouble with my reef tank. I purchased beginner corals from you guys, but I am now sure that the nitrogen cycle did not complete, I have high nitrites and low ammonia, I am wondering if I should do a large water change or if I should leave it and dose seachem prime or similar products
My PH has been fluctuating and got pretty low, wondering if that had to do with too much ammonia to begin with, but I never have dosed ammonia. My main concern is that all the nitrites are now dead and stalled the cycle. Debating if I should dose ammonia but I’m afraid that will raise my nitrites to dangerous levels
Don't complicate things by worrying about your pH right now. Using some Dr Tim's one and only and let it ride will likely be your best option.
@@jdearel1 thank you for the reply, just ordered a bottle of one and only. Will dose that and see what happens
WWC has given away one of their secrets! Kalk for 99.9% of their tanks including the nanos 🤯
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