kalkwasser made with regular lime.

[Luis]

Hi guys.

Just a question.... what happen if I make kalkwasser with regular lime instead of pickling lime? do you think it could harm my system? Could be very cheap

Thanks

 

[Anonymous]

pickling lime isn't that expensive, $1.59 for about 2 yrs worth of kalk. I wouldn't chance it.

 

[Anonymous]

I used to you hydrated lime from a feed store.

It's pretty much the same thing, the food grade is just cleaner. I'm using ms. wages now. you can order directly from the website if you can't find it locally.

B

 

[Luis]

Thank you guys for your replies. The problem is that I'm visiting a Nephew in Baja; he has a reef tank with fish, corals, macro algae, live rocks and sand that he got right from the ocean (even water), he has never paid a nickle for anything but the drygoods 8O but his rocks look bad without calcareous algae. I explained him about the kalwasser and the pickling lime thing and he opened his eyes soo big asking: "what the heck is pickling lime?" We tried to find it in the store but nobody knows what it is over here they use regular lime to make pickles 8O, so I thought: let's use regular lime from the hardware store but I'll never forgive myself if something happen to my nephew's tank just because of me.

I will send him a bottle of pickling lime a soon as I get back, so he's going to add the kalkwasser made from regular lime for a couple months before he get the pickling lime. Do you think it can harm his reef tank?

thanks

 

[Anonymous]

Regular lime will not harm the tank as long as he only adds clear liquid. The lime will dissolve but fairly slowly.

 

[Anonymous]

In most cases, you can find pickling lime in the section of the grocery store where the canning supplys are. It comes in bags or in carboard canisters. You can also find it in some hardware stores like true value that also carry canning supplys. We even have a feed/tack/med supplier for animals that carrys it here.

 

[coralfarmin]

imo..starting with some coraline covered rocks is the best way to get the coraline going..if they don't have any on them already the kalk won't help, if they have just a little it will spread,but it will take some time

If you could just bring him one nicely covered rock, and put a power head blowing on it, that would help alot also imo

 

[Anonymous]

I used to you hydrated lime from a feed store.

It's pretty much the same thing, the food grade is just cleaner. I'm using ms. wages now. you can order directly from the website if you can't find it locally.

B

Link??

:lol:

 

[tinyreef]

http://www.canningpantry.com/mrs-wages.html

i just got a case last month. mmhmm, good.

 

[Anonymous]

Could you just mail your nephew some pickling lime when you get home since you can't find it there?

If you sent him just one canister it would last a very long time.

 

[Anonymous]

Mrs Wages Pickling Lime page:


http://store.yahoo.com/mrswages/mrswagpiclim.html