Cole-palmer dual headed doser from someone on this forum: $90
Enough 2 part to last 2 years: $100
$190 spent with $210 to waste (err, I mean spend) on corals
how many wattts does your cole palmer doser use?amd how many hours a day does it run?
Cole-palmer dual headed doser from someone on this forum: $90
Enough 2 part to last 2 years: $100
$190 spent with $210 to waste (err, I mean spend) on corals
I do neither, I kalk it up and as Dave said instead of changing the quantity I drip I change the amount of kalk added to solution.
how many wattts does your cole palmer doser use?amd how many hours a day does it run?
What about the AC3?
kalkwasser won't meet demand on a heavily loaded reef and it does'nt matter how much kalk you add to your solution,once you exceed 1tps per gallon it will not go into solution anyway.I think you can check your solution it fully saturated by checking the ph as i recall it will be maxed out at 12.8
Already owned. AC3 = cheap insurance for the tank
I would also worry about dosing too much at a certain point, how many ml/per gal is safe to dose a tank?
Greg Hiller; said:One aspect of the two-part solutions that I worry about is that at the really high use rates, I wonder about the other elements that are being added, but not necessarily consumed by the corals. Also, with the changes in bromide levels in Dowflake, I don't know whether they days of cheap two-part solutions are coming to an end.
What i will say though is that i am far happier dissolving coral skeletons that originated from the reef
Ok, I understand the dissolving coral skeletons part being a good thing ..[but].. Then you don't know what crap is in your reactor either my friend
39 watts, 19 minutes per day, so 4.5 kw/hrs per year, which is like $0.77 in electricity
two part dosing does not deliver strontium either though.
Why not? They certainly can. My DIY may not keep up with all the demand, but it does dose some since Dowflake has substantial strontium in it. I showed in a previous article that it added, over the corse of a year, far more strontium than does using Koralith in a reactor. In fact, it adds 36 times as much. Not too much, but perhaps enough to be useful.
Purity of Calcium Chloride
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/mar2004/chem.htm
Commercial two parts can add all the strontium they want. You have no idea how much they add. I personally do not think strontium is important at all, but some folks do.
kalkwasser won't meet demand on a heavily loaded reef and it does'nt matter how much kalk you add to your solution,once you exceed 1tps per gallon it will not go into solution anyway.I think you can check your solution it fully saturated by checking the ph as i recall it will be maxed out at 12.8
I thought it was 2 tsp per gal.
Theres a simple solution to keeping up the demand, Open top with a fan evaporates twice as much water as not using a fan and keeps temps down. So 2 1/2 g topoff a week on a 30g tank is now 5g week...Im sure some of the 6 ft long tanks can evaporate quite a bit more than my little 24" opening.
You can add 10 tsp per gallon if you want. A saturated solution is a saturated solution.
I already evaporate 2-3 gallons daily. A bit higher in the summer months. I don't think it would be enough for my system no matter how much evaporated. Not to mention that I don't want MORE water evaporating into my house. A calcium reactor is a better way to go for me imho.
I thought the saturation point was at 2 tsp per gallon?
I thought it was 2 tsp per gal.
Theres a simple solution to keeping up the demand, Open top with a fan evaporates twice as much water as not using a fan and keeps temps down. So 2 1/2 g topoff a week on a 30g tank is now 5g week...Im sure some of the 6 ft long tanks can evaporate quite a bit more than my little 24" opening.
two part dosing does not deliver strontium either though.
Why not? They certainly can. My DIY may not keep up with all the demand, but it does dose some since Dowflake has substantial strontium in it. .
What i will say though is that i am far happier dissolving coral skeletons that originated from the reef than dosing various icemelt products that contain many unatural susbstances and i see that as a dissadvantage that should be on the list.
Thank you, thank you. It is great to know. Now I can stop dosing Strontium separately. BTW, I found that coraline algae like strontium a lot.
yeah you can stop dosing arsenic also Dong