Drip dosing kalk topoff!

[Mattl22]

I use a doser to drip dose kalk water as my top off

I use a 5 gal bucket that I fill every night I'm in process of setting up a bigger bucket so I don't have to fill every day !
Anyway question is I mix the kalk by hand should I have a power head in there going off every few hrs?

What's most kalk per gallon u can add?

 

[Widdy]

2 teaspoons of kalk per 1 gallon of RODI water is saturation. You can also add vinegar for a higher saturation point. 45mL of vinegar will allow for 3 teaspoons of kalk to dissolve if your calcium/alk demand exceeds what 2 teaspoons would provide.

 

[Nottick]

Randy Farley homes has plenty to read on this. Search Google and I'm sure you'll be busy reading for hours.

 

[Mattl22]

Thanks widdy!!!
I'm hopefully getting a skimmer this week so can't add vinegar till skimmer running !!

 

[Mattl22]

What about running the power head??

 

[Widdy]

Yea, good idea on the skimmer. Vinegar will be carbon dosing, better to run a skimmer with it.

You can premix the kalk with a powerhead and let the un-dissolved kalk settle. You don't want to dose the slurry. Running the powerhead 24/7 wouldn't be advised, the undissolved kalk won't settle. I use a kalk stirrer which continuously mix the kalk at low speeds. But I'm a equipment junkie, many has premixed kalk just fine.

 

[MIKE NY]

Matt..I use kalk and vinagar in my ATO and, as mentioned, after mixing let it settle as long as the the kalk water has a PH of 11 or higher it's good.... I dose vinagar at a rate of 50ml per 5 gallons.