The studio looks really well thought out. I'm a huge kalkwasser fan. Took the 2 part off my system and never looked back. So many benefits, not enough time.
How do you know how often you should add more Kalkwasser to the reactor and how frequently do you clean them? How do you feel about the reactors that just tie into your ATO vs the stand alone units?
Great video Jake! Good to see you sharing the secrets of your success. I am curious about that new Hanna ph meter. What is the life of the electrode? Typically we replace regular probes every 1-2 years
Great vid about ph! Some people say don’t chase ph and I’ve always had trouble with my old tank keeping it at 7.8. Since I bought my waterbox I’ve been able to utilize the top-off to help me with this issue. I tried kalk but hated having to clean my ato every 5 days. I used aqua vitro 8.4 and has been awesome in maintaining at 8.3-8.4. I still have to dose a little alk and could prob just bump up the amount of 8.4. Recently I changed to continuum kh and am currently dialing in the amount to does in my ato. I would have love to stayed w the 8.4, but finding gallons is a hassle and I can get the same amount of continuum for $20 or so less.
He failed to cover many points that new reefers over look: Jake, Im pretty disappointed in this video. You have definitely led some new reefers in the wrong direction by saying shoot for high ph. There is such a thing as having too high of a ph and this has detrimental effects, which you fail to mention. Ph and alkalinity are also tied together when using kalk. Having a very high ph usually means your alkalinity is very high as well. Please discuss how alkalinity affects the growth of things. I know you are not really a SPS person but having this high alkalinity leads to too fast of growth in branchy SPS. This leads to frail brittle branches that can not support new growth. You will also start to notice the tips of your branchy SPS turn white and burn because they are trying to grow too fast. You may have not noticed this yet, but if you continue on this path in a few months you will see what im talking about. Please follow up this video and address these points so that you do not lead new reefers into a bad situation. I know alot of new reefers watch your channel for this sort of advice. I am not trying to hate on you at all and love your videos, there are just a few critical pieces of information you failed to mention in this video.
I completely agree about high pH. I first started reefing in 2002 (my first saltwater aquarium, fish only, was in 1993). I started with soft corals and after a few months started adding some lps. To keep up with calcium demands I started using kalkwasser. Every week I would have my water tested by a lfs that I worked at and after using kalkwasser as my top off the pH changed from 7.8 to 8.1 or 8.2. everyone else would always tell me that my pH was too high but my lps and a montipora Digitata (my first and only SPS at that time) were growing very fast, noticably faster than when I wasn't using kalkwasser and my pH stayed between 7.7-7.9. I originally thought it was just the extra calcium from the kalk solution, but then I tried doing things to lower the pH. I added a large refugium (40g breeder on a 46g bowfront) and the pH stayed between 7.5-7.7. At that pH my corals growth slowed down noticably (I didn't notice any differences in the growth rates of my softies during this time. The montipora Digitata, and the montipora Capricornis that I added to the tank, always made the difference in growth rates very obvious. After a year with the big refugium (a 40g refugium on a 46g display tank is pretty darn big. I'm willing to bet that the refugium held more water than the display because of all the love rock in the display) and lower pH, growth was surprisingly slow although the tank looked amazing and nitrates, nitrites, phosphate, etc were pretty much nonexistent. So, I switched to a small hob refugium and turned the 40g breeder into a frag tank. The pH Willy went back up to 8.1 and the montiporas started growing much faster, especially the monti Cap. Since then I've almost always kept the pH around 8.1 (there were two other times in the last 15 years that I thought about lowering pH. 1 time because I thought it would happen again because this time I was adding another large refugium but I was adding it as a display refugium rather than a refugium just to grow chaeto (I remember when I used caulerpa, before there was much talk about chaeto and had a few caulerpa outbreaks. I quickly switched to cheato and never looked back) and I've never had any problems. Also, I've always thought that kalk has been way undervalued/underrated. About 10 years ago I stopped using kalkwasser and started dosing everything in my main display tank, but I still used my kalk reactor on my frag tank and frags of corals from the display tank grew much faster in my kalk-fed frag tank. After a few months of that I added a Deltec kalk reactor to the display and growth rates immediately rose. Since then I've continued to use kalk on all of my tanks and never worried about my pH being about 8.2. So, for myself, I've always had great success with kalk and higher pH, but that's one of my loves about this hobby. Sometimes, two tanks with different techniques, equipment, parameters, etc can produce the same and excellent results. Do whatever works best for you. I know of fellow hobbyists that have amazing tanks and their pH never goes above 7.7. I tell people all the time that I want my calcium to stay above 400, but I've had tanks that rarely could keep above 350 and those tanks did just as good as the tanks that stayed around 450. What I always tell new people to the hobby is that consistency is far more important than specific numbers/parameters. Keeping your pH between 7.4-7.6, 8.2-8.4, etc is far better than having it bounce around between 7.6-8.2. For me, consistency is the most important way to maintain a good reef. I no longer care if parameters are a little high or a little low. I just want them to stay consistent.
damn bro the place is looking great! your vision is coming to life! do you plan on opening this to the public in the future or is this just for your own personal use. i live in laguna hills oc and would absolutely LOVE to see this in person and just talk to you and see this place for myself. btw i told everyone at the sand bar to check out your videos because i saw you wearing their shirt in your one video. lol they were so excited and pulled the video up right on the store computer hahah. great work bro i always tell people to check out your channel.
You mention montipora loves magnesium and that product from brightwell. So how does dkh have any effect together with ph for coral growth in red sea product? Since ph is to lower the accidity in the tank when calcium level is raise using carbon dioxide and coral crush?
I love my Avast kalkstirrer. I dose RO with my Apex DOS which makes adjustments really easy, just have to check the nozzle weekly for blockages as I’ve had a few. pH around 8.4 at peak right now with 615ml in a Red Sea Reefer 170. I am still adjusting up as my coral growth has increased a lot since dosing kalkwasser.
Kalk is easiest thing to measure because you don't have to, just add way more than enough and it'll mix to saturation. Depending on dosing rates the kalk in a reactor can last three to six months!
Cool , Do you just keep dripping fully saturated , full strength Kali until PH maxes out & then reduce drips if necessary ? Quadenateing with ATO . How often & How Do you know when to change & clean . Maybe a whole nother video?
How do you know how much kacl 2 you have to put in the reactor? And can the Kalkwasser be combined with an organic baling, such as Tropic Marine all for reef?
What was the dosing pump you referenced? I always look forward to these videos! Always super quality and helpful! The lighting in this video was especially nice!!!
when dosing kalk to increase pH you all so have the side effect of increasing calcium and alk. I dose triton which already has alk and calc, is there a way to avoid upping the ALK to much in this situation ? Thanks
Can you explain me is Kalkwasser only for calcium or also for dosing alkalinity in tank or? If I go with Kalkwasser do I need still dose alkalinity or I can quit with this because it is all in one? I have low demand tank but have problems with Ph. tnx
What’s going on with your alkalinity? Concerns, practices, and so on. Kalkwasser will or does affect alkalinity. Just wondering how you deal with parameters.
I also use a Avast Kalk stirrer, with a Neptune Dos. I set the dose to replenish what my systems Alk demand is for a twenty four hour period, then my ato takes care of the extra tank evaporation. My Ph runs between 8.1-8.25. Should I keep my Alk around 8.5ish or just set the dose to dose the entire evaporation amount for a twenty four hour period and just let the Alk rise, to increase PH higher? Thanks, Brian
Is there any point where you'd say the pH is too high? A year ago i ran a mix of kalk in my ATO alpng with 2 part. My pH was 8.4 but my alk levels werent stable so i switched to 2 part only and got them stable. Which is more important in your opinion stable alk or high pH?
Great video! So, please confirm your daily top off for all those tanks is kalkwasswer? No fresh rodi direct regarding top off? 7 liters of kalk a day to one tank means the CA-RX had to be re-tuned as kalk effects dkh, correct?
Great video! I started reading about this Kalk +2 after watching it. A quick google search I find some posts by Randy Holmes stating that the Mag actually settles out in the lime water. Now... These posts were from long ago. So I am curious if anyone has used this product and tested Mag before hand and after?
If my tank daily evaporate 500ml and I use normal dosing pump to fill up rodi in. So in this case I just run thru the kalkwasser reactor while dosing 500ml? Because my CR been running like 80ml permin set in versa. Main tank Ph keep at 7.8.
cool video jake, i suffer from low PH levels and tried using kalkwasser but it raised my alkalinity levels pretty high. Do you suffer from high alk levels when using Kalk? What levels do you keep yours around? Cheers!
The kalkwasser is dosed based on your alkalinity demands. If kalkwasser dosing doesn’t push your ph as high as you would like when properly dosing based on your coral needs, you may have to look at alternative methods to raise it further. Some scrub CO2, some use a fresh air line into skimmer. He recommends dosing kalk since we all have to dose either 2 part or kalk anyways and the added benefit is higher ph.
@@tempestscout2 i dose alkalinity, calcium and magnesium all separately using the ATI programme (Cal and mag are does in equal amounts and alk is dosed higher). I use quite a lot of Alkalinity solution to keep up with demands. So by dripping Kalkwasser slowly into the system, will mean i can lower my alkalinity consumption? and gain higher PH?
Have you had any issues with kalk clogging the 1/4 line? I have a standard 1/2 barb with vinyl tubing and the end where is drips into tank clogged after about 3-4 months and overflowed reactor
Ok Jake you need to answer us this question. I was looking back at the comments and a few people asked this with no answer. If your ph is low but your calcium and alkalinity are high, what happens to those parameters if you add kalkwasser. My calcium is always at 450. I don’t have enough corals yet to drive that down. But my ph is always 7.9 to 8.1. How would I get that up. Thanks for the advice I think this is one of the biggest questions we new reefers have.
He failed to answer this for sure and it is a huge issue. You can not just keep adding kalk to raise ph if you do not have enough consumption of alk. Jake, Im pretty disappointed in this video. You have definitely led some new reefers in the wrong direction by saying shoot for high ph. There is such a thing as having too high of a ph and this has detrimental effects, which you fail to mention. Ph and alkalinity are also tied together when using kalk. Having a very high ph usually means your alkalinity is very high as well. Please discuss how alkalinity affects the growth of things. I know you are not really a SPS person but having this high alkalinity leads to too fast of growth in branchy SPS. This leads to frail brittle branches that can not support new growth. You will also start to notice the tips of your branchy SPS turn white and burn because they are trying to grow too fast. You may have not noticed this yet, but if you continue on this path in a few months you will see what im talking about. Please follow up this video and address these points so that you do not lead new reefers into a bad situation. I know alot of new reefers watch your channel for this sort of advice. I am not trying to hate on you at all and love your videos, there are just a few critical pieces of information you failed to mention in this video.
Hello everyone, Good morning I want to know why you use LEDs of this brand and do not use Kessil? Why is it expanded less energy? Or better quality spectrum terms?
It occurred to me this morning that I should be utilizing my saltwater quarantine tank to grow out some macroalgae. Nearby I have Co2 injecting into freshwater tanks. I have an open nozzle on the 6 way splitter. Think it would be worth injecting CO2 into that tank when it only has macroalgae in it?
Jake, Im pretty disappointed in this video. You have definitely led some new reefers in the wrong direction by saying shoot for high ph. There is such a thing as having too high of a ph and this has detrimental effects, which you fail to mention. Ph and alkalinity are also tied together when using kalk. Having a very high ph usually means your alkalinity is very high as well. Please discuss how alkalinity affects the growth of things. I know you are not really a SPS person but having this high alkalinity leads to too fast of growth in branchy SPS. This leads to frail brittle branches that can not support new growth. You will also start to notice the tips of your branchy SPS turn white and burn because they are trying to grow too fast. You may have not noticed this yet, but if you continue on this path in a few months you will see what im talking about. Please follow up this video and address these points so that you do not lead new reefers into a bad situation. I know alot of new reefers watch your channel for this sort of advice. I am not trying to hate on you at all and love your videos, there are just a few critical pieces of information you failed to mention in this video.
I have a question what is your parameters that you run your tanks at? Because my ph is at 8.2-8.3 an my cal is at 460-480. N I saw on some forms that to get rapidly coral growth for lps you want to be around 11.8-12.0 for alk. N I've been running them parameters for about a month n I'm seeing my coral thrived an grow but seem but now they seem to stop growing so idk what is a good spot to keep alkalinity at? So I figured you could help me out with that thanks
So how do you dose so much kalkwasser if you don't have that much calcium/alkalinity uptake? I realize higher ph = faster uptake, but at some point (probably early on) you won't have enough corals to suck the calcium & alkalinity out fast enough and then you'll spike both of those? Or will they simply precipitate out of the water?
Mike see my comment as he failed to address this: Jake, Im pretty disappointed in this video. You have definitely led some new reefers in the wrong direction by saying shoot for high ph. There is such a thing as having too high of a ph and this has detrimental effects, which you fail to mention. Ph and alkalinity are also tied together when using kalk. Having a very high ph usually means your alkalinity is very high as well. Please discuss how alkalinity affects the growth of things. I know you are not really a SPS person but having this high alkalinity leads to too fast of growth in branchy SPS. This leads to frail brittle branches that can not support new growth. You will also start to notice the tips of your branchy SPS turn white and burn because they are trying to grow too fast. You may have not noticed this yet, but if you continue on this path in a few months you will see what im talking about. Please follow up this video and address these points so that you do not lead new reefers into a bad situation. I know alot of new reefers watch your channel for this sort of advice. I am not trying to hate on you at all and love your videos, there are just a few critical pieces of information you failed to mention in this video.
I feel like you just got got so much more dignified with the mustache. Instead of hearing thoughts from just a reeef dude it’s like listening to a professor. You even speak different with the mustache. What kind of tank is the one you’re keeping your corals in? Or did you build that one?
Are you adjusting your ph based on the lowest point (when lights kick on) or at its highest reading? Another wards do you want your ph to mimic ocean at 8.2 (or higher) when lights are on?
One day Jake is going to post a video on how he wished he’d gotten an apex a long time ago. Until then, a “single use test” is still apparently better than a continuous log. Love the videos. 😉
Knowing information past even two days isn’t all that useful. But knowing your kalk reactor broke in a few hours would make your coral happy, or a major temp swing. But for me personally it’s so I can practice “careful neglect” while being able to monitor from “the corner of my eye.” Using one app for managing dosing is sweet. Even sweeter is when it’s programmed to manage a calcium reactor to the point that all I really have to do to increase effluent output is to literally turn the “knob” up to 11 from the single app. As the flow increases the apex detects a rise of the cr ph probe which opens the solenoid automatically. The effluent is metered via my dos. Increase or decrease the metered amount of effluent and everything else is automatically adjusted. With the energy bar if a pump fails, it can tell you. Even if I don’t get the notification (think Sanjays crash) it’s still better than not knowing if I’m out of town for a week. But I’m positive I’m not the first err 100th person to plead my case.
It is pointless to run a calcium reactor and calcium hydroxide if you really understand chemistry, although you need both when running a calcium reactor. You can use sodium hydroxide, or potassium hydroxide*.
I wouldn't, because you'll get very irregular addition - best to dose a predetermined amount and let the ATO make up the difference, this is essentially what I do for all my tanks.
Also, i curently dose ATI essentials alk, cal, and mag..by running this method to elevate ph, will i also be elevating my calcium, requiring me to dose less cal with the ATI? Sorry fo so many questions
i think it's the mustache accelerating your coral growth
Lmao the power of the stache, not to be underestimated .
Thanks Jake keep popping them out the Internet is boring without your videos
Miss u man 😢
The studio looks really well thought out. I'm a huge kalkwasser fan. Took the 2 part off my system and never looked back. So many benefits, not enough time.
“Just raise your freaking pH” - Jake Adams
ReefStock Happening in Denver VERY soon! Check it out: reefstock.show
Nature is amazing in the way it made corals to grow the most at the exact natural pH of most reefs.
Reef Builders can’t wait for ReefStock Australia, then we’re heading over to MACNA for this first time! Keep up the outstanding work Jake!
hey man can you tell who you dose from kalkwasser reactor to the tank with dose pump
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thanks for advanced
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I'm just excited about new videos 2 days in a row! Your studio looks awesome. Would love to visit someday!
this comment aged well.
Great videos! I just started using Kalkwasser last week. Huge improvement of coral color and growth.
I’m really into this idea. Can’t praise it enough 🙌
Great video, thank you so much.
How do you know how often you should add more Kalkwasser to the reactor and how frequently do you clean them? How do you feel about the reactors that just tie into your ATO vs the stand alone units?
Great video Jake! Good to see you sharing the secrets of your success. I am curious about that new Hanna ph meter. What is the life of the electrode? Typically we replace regular probes every 1-2 years
Great vid about ph! Some people say don’t chase ph and I’ve always had trouble with my old tank keeping it at 7.8. Since I bought my waterbox I’ve been able to utilize the top-off to help me with this issue. I tried kalk but hated having to clean my ato every 5 days. I used aqua vitro 8.4 and has been awesome in maintaining at 8.3-8.4. I still have to dose a little alk and could prob just bump up the amount of 8.4. Recently I changed to continuum kh and am currently dialing in the amount to does in my ato. I would have love to stayed w the 8.4, but finding gallons is a hassle and I can get the same amount of continuum for $20 or so less.
Great video Jake! Great points covered on what A LOT of people over look
He failed to cover many points that new reefers over look: Jake, Im pretty disappointed in this video. You have definitely led some new reefers in the wrong direction by saying shoot for high ph. There is such a thing as having too high of a ph and this has detrimental effects, which you fail to mention. Ph and alkalinity are also tied together when using kalk. Having a very high ph usually means your alkalinity is very high as well. Please discuss how alkalinity affects the growth of things. I know you are not really a SPS person but having this high alkalinity leads to too fast of growth in branchy SPS. This leads to frail brittle branches that can not support new growth. You will also start to notice the tips of your branchy SPS turn white and burn because they are trying to grow too fast. You may have not noticed this yet, but if you continue on this path in a few months you will see what im talking about. Please follow up this video and address these points so that you do not lead new reefers into a bad situation. I know alot of new reefers watch your channel for this sort of advice. I am not trying to hate on you at all and love your videos, there are just a few critical pieces of information you failed to mention in this video.
This video is aging well!
I completely agree about high pH. I first started reefing in 2002 (my first saltwater aquarium, fish only, was in 1993). I started with soft corals and after a few months started adding some lps. To keep up with calcium demands I started using kalkwasser. Every week I would have my water tested by a lfs that I worked at and after using kalkwasser as my top off the pH changed from 7.8 to 8.1 or 8.2. everyone else would always tell me that my pH was too high but my lps and a montipora Digitata (my first and only SPS at that time) were growing very fast, noticably faster than when I wasn't using kalkwasser and my pH stayed between 7.7-7.9. I originally thought it was just the extra calcium from the kalk solution, but then I tried doing things to lower the pH. I added a large refugium (40g breeder on a 46g bowfront) and the pH stayed between 7.5-7.7. At that pH my corals growth slowed down noticably (I didn't notice any differences in the growth rates of my softies during this time. The montipora Digitata, and the montipora Capricornis that I added to the tank, always made the difference in growth rates very obvious. After a year with the big refugium (a 40g refugium on a 46g display tank is pretty darn big. I'm willing to bet that the refugium held more water than the display because of all the love rock in the display) and lower pH, growth was surprisingly slow although the tank looked amazing and nitrates, nitrites, phosphate, etc were pretty much nonexistent. So, I switched to a small hob refugium and turned the 40g breeder into a frag tank. The pH Willy went back up to 8.1 and the montiporas started growing much faster, especially the monti Cap. Since then I've almost always kept the pH around 8.1 (there were two other times in the last 15 years that I thought about lowering pH. 1 time because I thought it would happen again because this time I was adding another large refugium but I was adding it as a display refugium rather than a refugium just to grow chaeto (I remember when
I used caulerpa, before there was much talk about chaeto and had a few caulerpa outbreaks. I quickly switched to cheato and never looked back) and I've never had any problems. Also, I've always thought that kalk has been way undervalued/underrated. About 10 years ago I stopped using kalkwasser and started dosing everything in my main display tank, but I still used my kalk reactor on my frag tank and frags of corals from the display tank grew much faster in my kalk-fed frag tank. After a few months of that I added a Deltec kalk reactor to the display and growth rates immediately rose. Since then I've continued to use kalk on all of my tanks and never worried about my pH being about 8.2. So, for myself, I've always had great success with kalk and higher pH, but that's one of my loves about this hobby. Sometimes, two tanks with different techniques, equipment, parameters, etc can produce the same and excellent results. Do whatever works best for you. I know of fellow hobbyists that have amazing tanks and their pH never goes above 7.7. I tell people all the time that I want my calcium to stay above 400, but I've had tanks that rarely could keep above 350 and those tanks did just as good as the tanks that stayed around 450. What I always tell new people to the hobby is that consistency is far more important than specific numbers/parameters. Keeping your pH between 7.4-7.6, 8.2-8.4, etc is far better than having it bounce around between 7.6-8.2. For me, consistency is the most important way to maintain a good reef. I no longer care if parameters are a little high or a little low. I just want them to stay consistent.
I hope you used a keybord and not a Smartphone to type that.
@@whywhy7634 I used a smartphone. My left arm is paralyzed. So, using swipe on my phone is significantly quicker than me typing on a keyboard.
@@DrBlazer50 well thats arguably reasonable. Thanks for the efforts.
great video Jake
Your studio is really looking great.
Cool video Jake. How about dosing Kalk mix using dosing pump?
Two little fishies also makes a great kalkwasser reactor ;) take care good video
Strong strong facial hair game going on here Jake, inspirational stuff dude.
Hi Jake
When do you refill the kalk reactor? Do you have 2 diferent ways to keep salinity gravity and dosing pump?
Excellent!
Sweet another one👍🏻👍🏻
whats the name brand of the reactor and where can I buy one just like yours
What was the name of the Kalk reactor you use and where do they sell at? I have a two little fishies one but like those you have .
damn bro the place is looking great! your vision is coming to life! do you plan on opening this to the public in the future or is this just for your own personal use. i live in laguna hills oc and would absolutely LOVE to see this in person and just talk to you and see this place for myself. btw i told everyone at the sand bar to check out your videos because i saw you wearing their shirt in your one video. lol they were so excited and pulled the video up right on the store computer hahah. great work bro i always tell people to check out your channel.
You mention montipora loves magnesium and that product from brightwell. So how does dkh have any effect together with ph for coral growth in red sea product? Since ph is to lower the accidity in the tank when calcium level is raise using carbon dioxide and coral crush?
Seeing you with a mustache for my first time in the vid made me smile sooooo hard, just shaved myself into one lol
I love my Avast kalkstirrer. I dose RO with my Apex DOS which makes adjustments really easy, just have to check the nozzle weekly for blockages as I’ve had a few. pH around 8.4 at peak right now with 615ml in a Red Sea Reefer 170. I am still adjusting up as my coral growth has increased a lot since dosing kalkwasser.
Great to hear!
Hey Jake, I would love to try that Kalk+2. Do you know how much magnesium it delivers along with calcium and alk?
Love the ph meter.
What model is it?
hi, so you use slurry and not saturated kalkwasser, could you explain the reason ? thanks
Great video man 👌🏻How often do you refill your Kalkwasser Stirrer’s with Kalkwasser and how do you know when to refill them?
Kalk is easiest thing to measure because you don't have to, just add way more than enough and it'll mix to saturation. Depending on dosing rates the kalk in a reactor can last three to six months!
how did you get 1/4" line onto that 1/2" barb?
I must agree with Kalk. I run it on all my tanks found out 4 years ago it was better than dosing from the results I seen with my 54 gallon.
do you have a ph probe hooked into the reactor? I have a red sea kalk reactor that doesnt offer pH probe input.
Hi, why don't you add à kalwasser according of the ph and not the evaporation? Thx
Should i add buffer during night or day???
Love the centralized top off tanks. Good stuff! Whats the ph of that stash? Looks to be at chuck Norris levels.
More like chuckie noris, lower case, only one r
Can’t wait for my first reef stock and hope to get to shake your hand Jake.
I'll be kind of hard to miss so don't be shy
Cool , Do you just keep dripping fully saturated , full strength Kali until PH maxes out & then reduce drips if necessary ? Quadenateing with ATO . How often & How Do you know when to change & clean . Maybe a whole nother video?
How do you know how much kacl 2 you have to put in the reactor? And can the Kalkwasser be combined with an organic baling, such as Tropic Marine all for reef?
is the kalk stirrer dripping 24/7 or connected to the ATO?
Do you dose kalk all day or just at night
I love your place.
What was the dosing pump you referenced?
I always look forward to these videos! Always super quality and helpful! The lighting in this video was especially nice!!!
GHL Doser 2.1
What was the cheaper, smaller one you mentioned at the end of the video? I couldn’t quite understand it.
Time flies, the studio looks so bare😮
when dosing kalk to increase pH you all so have the side effect of increasing calcium and alk. I dose triton which already has alk and calc, is there a way to avoid upping the ALK to much in this situation ? Thanks
How much of kalk you dose in every gallon of water?
Anyway to increase ph beside using KAL?
Any link for the ph probe?
hey its the 70's calling ,
Your Shag carpeting is ready for pick up?
Can you explain me is Kalkwasser only for calcium or also for dosing alkalinity in tank or? If I go with Kalkwasser do I need still dose alkalinity or I can quit with this because it is all in one? I have low demand tank but have problems with Ph. tnx
What’s going on with your alkalinity? Concerns, practices, and so on. Kalkwasser will or does affect alkalinity. Just wondering how you deal with parameters.
I also use a Avast Kalk stirrer, with a Neptune Dos. I set the dose to replenish what my systems Alk demand is for a twenty four hour period, then my ato takes care of the extra tank evaporation. My Ph runs between 8.1-8.25. Should I keep my Alk around 8.5ish or just set the dose to dose the entire evaporation amount for a twenty four hour period and just let the Alk rise, to increase PH higher? Thanks, Brian
How do I achieve dosing a 125 if I'm currently dosing equal parts of Calcium, Alk, Mag? How much kalk+2 vs liquid dosing sir?
Is there any point where you'd say the pH is too high? A year ago i ran a mix of kalk in my ATO alpng with 2 part. My pH was 8.4 but my alk levels werent stable so i switched to 2 part only and got them stable. Which is more important in your opinion stable alk or high pH?
That was bad ass
RIP JAKE
When you say "freshwater", do you mean RO water?? Very interested in giving the avast unit a try. Currently ph 8.1. Thanks in advance, ken
Great video! So, please confirm your daily top off for all those tanks is kalkwasswer? No fresh rodi direct regarding top off? 7 liters of kalk a day to one tank means the CA-RX had to be re-tuned as kalk effects dkh, correct?
90% of the freshwater added to the tank is through kalk, difference varies and is made up with gravity-fed float valve.
yea i keep mine at 8.3 new baby polyps growing every month or so
Ok jake I’ve been using calk for months and my cal and alk rising like crazy and my ph just at 7.68 sometimes lower , what’s happening please help
So do most ppl who dose kalkwasser not dose two part? I'm seeing many comments about how you don't address alk/pH relationship etc.
Great video! I started reading about this Kalk +2 after watching it. A quick google search I find some posts by Randy Holmes stating that the Mag actually settles out in the lime water. Now... These posts were from long ago. So I am curious if anyone has used this product and tested Mag before hand and after?
I wonder about it too. Jake, any feedback of it?
I just read the same thing. There is no definitive answers. No one has actually tested magnesium after using this product. Would like an answer.
@@JRPaquatics We'll probably never know!
Like the mustache,,, Nice gadget 👍
If my tank daily evaporate 500ml and I use normal dosing pump to fill up rodi in. So in this case I just run thru the kalkwasser reactor while dosing 500ml? Because my CR been running like 80ml permin set in versa. Main tank Ph keep at 7.8.
How do you know when you need to put more kalk in the reactor?
When the pH inside drops to around 9, it should normally be around 11+
cool video jake, i suffer from low PH levels and tried using kalkwasser but it raised my alkalinity levels pretty high. Do you suffer from high alk levels when using Kalk? What levels do you keep yours around? Cheers!
The kalkwasser is dosed based on your alkalinity demands. If kalkwasser dosing doesn’t push your ph as high as you would like when properly dosing based on your coral needs, you may have to look at alternative methods to raise it further. Some scrub CO2, some use a fresh air line into skimmer. He recommends dosing kalk since we all have to dose either 2 part or kalk anyways and the added benefit is higher ph.
@@tempestscout2 i dose alkalinity, calcium and magnesium all separately using the ATI programme (Cal and mag are does in equal amounts and alk is dosed higher). I use quite a lot of Alkalinity solution to keep up with demands. So by dripping Kalkwasser slowly into the system, will mean i can lower my alkalinity consumption? and gain higher PH?
Have you had any issues with kalk clogging the 1/4 line? I have a standard 1/2 barb with vinyl tubing and the end where is drips into tank clogged after about 3-4 months and overflowed reactor
I have too, just have to check every week to ensure no buildup.
Ok Jake you need to answer us this question. I was looking back at the comments and a few people asked this with no answer. If your ph is low but your calcium and alkalinity are high, what happens to those parameters if you add kalkwasser. My calcium is always at 450. I don’t have enough corals yet to drive that down. But my ph is always 7.9 to 8.1. How would I get that up. Thanks for the advice I think this is one of the biggest questions we new reefers have.
He failed to answer this for sure and it is a huge issue. You can not just keep adding kalk to raise ph if you do not have enough consumption of alk. Jake, Im pretty disappointed in this video. You have definitely led some new reefers in the wrong direction by saying shoot for high ph. There is such a thing as having too high of a ph and this has detrimental effects, which you fail to mention. Ph and alkalinity are also tied together when using kalk. Having a very high ph usually means your alkalinity is very high as well. Please discuss how alkalinity affects the growth of things. I know you are not really a SPS person but having this high alkalinity leads to too fast of growth in branchy SPS. This leads to frail brittle branches that can not support new growth. You will also start to notice the tips of your branchy SPS turn white and burn because they are trying to grow too fast. You may have not noticed this yet, but if you continue on this path in a few months you will see what im talking about. Please follow up this video and address these points so that you do not lead new reefers into a bad situation. I know alot of new reefers watch your channel for this sort of advice. I am not trying to hate on you at all and love your videos, there are just a few critical pieces of information you failed to mention in this video.
@@JordanMowbray Buy more coral ???? Also if the ph goes up the consumption should go up in theory. Or you can switch salts.
Nice!
Well said Jake. Keep the good videos coming. Love you content.
On a side note is that stand strong enough for a barrel of water?
Yes I did my research on it, it's Uline not Walmart or Home Depot, rated for like 2000 pounds total.
Jake... Love the video like always, but when did you get Ron Jeremy to stand in??? (Porn Mustache humor)..lol
Hello everyone, Good morning
I want to know why you use LEDs of this brand and do not use Kessil?
Why is it expanded less energy?
Or better quality spectrum terms?
I use every quality LED including Kessil
It occurred to me this morning that I should be utilizing my saltwater quarantine tank to grow out some macroalgae. Nearby I have Co2 injecting into freshwater tanks. I have an open nozzle on the 6 way splitter. Think it would be worth injecting CO2 into that tank when it only has macroalgae in it?
very little bit
No t5 lightning?!?
Are you calculating how much kalkwasser to add by maintaining a certain ALK level? What does your alk test at in these tanks?
Nope, I just add as much as my tanks can take, provided by the headroom of evaporation
Should be good to know if the Kalkwaser will affect any other parameter like Alk... what about if I want to keep my PH in 8.4 but Alk in 7???
I'm interested in this as well. I'm doing two part. Wouldn't my alk and calc go too high if I'm adding kalk as well?
Jake, Im pretty disappointed in this video. You have definitely led some new reefers in the wrong direction by saying shoot for high ph. There is such a thing as having too high of a ph and this has detrimental effects, which you fail to mention. Ph and alkalinity are also tied together when using kalk. Having a very high ph usually means your alkalinity is very high as well. Please discuss how alkalinity affects the growth of things. I know you are not really a SPS person but having this high alkalinity leads to too fast of growth in branchy SPS. This leads to frail brittle branches that can not support new growth. You will also start to notice the tips of your branchy SPS turn white and burn because they are trying to grow too fast. You may have not noticed this yet, but if you continue on this path in a few months you will see what im talking about. Please follow up this video and address these points so that you do not lead new reefers into a bad situation. I know alot of new reefers watch your channel for this sort of advice. I am not trying to hate on you at all and love your videos, there are just a few critical pieces of information you failed to mention in this video.
I have a question what is your parameters that you run your tanks at? Because my ph is at 8.2-8.3 an my cal is at 460-480. N I saw on some forms that to get rapidly coral growth for lps you want to be around 11.8-12.0 for alk. N I've been running them parameters for about a month n I'm seeing my coral thrived an grow but seem but now they seem to stop growing so idk what is a good spot to keep alkalinity at? So I figured you could help me out with that thanks
Alkalinity & pH are related, but Alk is the building blocks needed for growth while pH is the condition that helps corals use more carbonate
How high can the pH go until it is not good for the corals? Thank you for sharing this video.
I dunno, haven’t found the upper limit yet, the fish are likely to freak out before the corals but I really don’t know.
You need some aviators for that amazing mustache!
So how do you dose so much kalkwasser if you don't have that much calcium/alkalinity uptake? I realize higher ph = faster uptake, but at some point (probably early on) you won't have enough corals to suck the calcium & alkalinity out fast enough and then you'll spike both of those? Or will they simply precipitate out of the water?
Mike see my comment as he failed to address this: Jake, Im pretty disappointed in this video. You have definitely led some new reefers in the wrong direction by saying shoot for high ph. There is such a thing as having too high of a ph and this has detrimental effects, which you fail to mention. Ph and alkalinity are also tied together when using kalk. Having a very high ph usually means your alkalinity is very high as well. Please discuss how alkalinity affects the growth of things. I know you are not really a SPS person but having this high alkalinity leads to too fast of growth in branchy SPS. This leads to frail brittle branches that can not support new growth. You will also start to notice the tips of your branchy SPS turn white and burn because they are trying to grow too fast. You may have not noticed this yet, but if you continue on this path in a few months you will see what im talking about. Please follow up this video and address these points so that you do not lead new reefers into a bad situation. I know alot of new reefers watch your channel for this sort of advice. I am not trying to hate on you at all and love your videos, there are just a few critical pieces of information you failed to mention in this video.
@@JordanMowbray alk more closely related to growth than ph.
How often do you re calibrate the Hanna ph checker?
Haven't yet, but will probably get around to doing it every couple of months.
Reef Builders awesome thx
Hi Jake , where does all the tubing go to feed your tanks with fresh water , by the ceiling?
two of them are routed along the wall, other two are siliconed into a gap in the floor.
Very well done ! One of the best ideas i saw in a long time ! .
Thanks for the info Jake !
I'm dosing Bulk Reef Kalk & I still can't get my PH past 8.1 without pushing my Alk past 10 🤦♂️. I gave up
I feel like you just got got so much more dignified with the mustache. Instead of hearing thoughts from just a reeef dude it’s like listening to a professor. You even speak different with the mustache. What kind of tank is the one you’re keeping your corals in? Or did you build that one?
What kalk reactor would you recommend for a 90 gallon system? Should I integrate it with the ato or use a dosing pump with a rodi reservoir?
Avast Marine is very straightforward and affordable
Would I be better off connecting it to a dosing pump and rodi reservoir separate from my ato so it doesn’t fluctuate?
Is there an actual mathematical way to see how many drips or mls to gallons = .1 of ph?
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Jake how much is that ph tester that thing is fantastic 👍
Are you adjusting your ph based on the lowest point (when lights kick on) or at its highest reading? Another wards do you want your ph to mimic ocean at 8.2 (or higher) when lights are on?
I aim for specific range for Ca/Mg/Alk but try to crank the pH up as high as possible.
Reef Builders thanks for the quick response! I think I need to test more often after watching this!
@@ReefBuildersVideo What reef parameters do you aim for?
One day Jake is going to post a video on how he wished he’d gotten an apex a long time ago. Until then, a “single use test” is still apparently better than a continuous log. Love the videos. 😉
I've used it all - and in my experience knowing the levels from more than one week ago doesn't help me with any decision making.
Knowing information past even two days isn’t all that useful. But knowing your kalk reactor broke in a few hours would make your coral happy, or a major temp swing. But for me personally it’s so I can practice “careful neglect” while being able to monitor from “the corner of my eye.” Using one app for managing dosing is sweet. Even sweeter is when it’s programmed to manage a calcium reactor to the point that all I really have to do to increase effluent output is to literally turn the “knob” up to 11 from the single app. As the flow increases the apex detects a rise of the cr ph probe which opens the solenoid automatically. The effluent is metered via my dos. Increase or decrease the metered amount of effluent and everything else is automatically adjusted. With the energy bar if a pump fails, it can tell you. Even if I don’t get the notification (think Sanjays crash) it’s still better than not knowing if I’m out of town for a week. But I’m positive I’m not the first err 100th person to plead my case.
It is pointless to run a calcium reactor and calcium hydroxide if you really understand chemistry, although you need both when running a calcium reactor. You can use sodium hydroxide, or potassium hydroxide*.
gday mate could you add that to an ATO tank with say a pump stirring it up
I wouldn't, because you'll get very irregular addition - best to dose a predetermined amount and let the ATO make up the difference, this is essentially what I do for all my tanks.
thanks mate legend
Also, i curently dose ATI essentials alk, cal, and mag..by running this method to elevate ph, will i also be elevating my calcium, requiring me to dose less cal with the ATI? Sorry fo so many questions
It will add a little calcium, and neutralize some acids that would otherwise depress your alk, and yes RO water is fresh water
It will add a little calcium, and neutralize some acids that would otherwise depress your alk, and yes RO water is fresh water
Any problem yet with humidity with all those uncovered tanks?
just in the last week it's jumped to 60-70% and started condensing on the door and windows like mad, but thankfully I have lids on the way!
I was wondering when humidity would become a problem-can’t wait to see who you’re working with for tank lids!
Is that ph probe needed to save the tip wet?
Yes you can’t let it ‘dry out’
What do you use for storage it?
Super👍👍👊
So are you maintaining that ph 24/7? Or is there a slight fluctuation at night
a 0.2 fluctuation is normal in a well stocked aquarium