kalk questions (Attn: Chemists)

[esmithiii]

A few quick questions:

1. Why do you have to let Kalkwasser sit overnight?

2. What is the white precipitate in the bottom of the container?

3. I use a medical doser hooked up to a Kent dosing container to dose kalkwasser. When I forget to mix and replenish the kalk, the doser quits and when it stops and I restart it, some of the precipitate ends up in the tank. Is this bad??

4. Also, there is a precipitate that forms like a stalagmite (or stalagtite? it goes down) from the drip tube in my sump. What is that stuff, and should I take care to remove it from the sump?

 

[BReefCase]

Short answer -- Calcium Carbonate, which is harmless but useless. Long answer -- read the nearby Kalkwasser thread by llowell, and all your questions will be answered.

 

[esmithiii]

Thanks B- After I posted, I noticed and read the other post. Excellent information. Thanks for the quick response.

You didn't say wether it was stalagtite or stalagmite, though!

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[jdeets]

Well, since the formations coming off the tube are going down, they'd be stalagtites (if they were in a cave, that is...). The ones that come up from the ground to meet the stalagtite is the stalagmite. You can remember this by the saying "A stalagtite holds tight; a stalagmite, might...