How to dose Kalkwasser - ACI Method

For this video, we got together with our good friend Chris Meckley of ACI Aquaculture to continue our Kalkwasser and higher pH revolution on how he incorporates Kalkwasser into his coral systems. Hopefully this video can also show how it can save you time and money by incorporating this into your system and also see things from the experiences and perspective of one of the most respected coral farmer in the industry.

Check it out and see if this can help you and comment down below!

Happy reefing!

[TattooedDancer]

More Reefs/ACI collaborations, these are the best videos out there :D

[HughJanus]

Chris is the guru that I listen to more than any other. More Chris plz

[camaro]

Been using Kalk since 2005, works great..

[brockshortjr]

Thanks for your time . 🙏. I love your videos dedication and info.

[UnorthodoxReef]

love this video, thanks for all in the info Chris

[cubanreefer]

This are the kind of videos that I will like for them to be longer because they teach good. Keep them coming to us guys a lot of information here, so basically all I need to do is keep my CR running and my kalkwaser giving my sump the replenish water that was evaporated with RODI water through the kalk

[Ciklidas]

Chris, respect for sharing your experience 👏you gave me lots of good ideas and observations 👍

[gsander]

Another great informative video. I dose alot considering the size of one tank because my chalice and porities are the size of salad and dinner plates. My favia, softball size. So i dose alot of 2 part. I notice seasonal growth typically in the Spring and Fall. Maybe it’s just my tank, but find it interesting.

[NanoJoe]

Literally just got done reading about kalk in Julian sprungs “The reef aquarium” vol. 3

[MS-lvpw]

Thanks for the tips. I am going to try this for the fourth time. I crashed my tank three times before using the same brs kalkwassrr. I threw it away and just bout two little fishes kalk and will tale it slow, monitor the ph amd alkalinity.

[villious]

I appreciate the effort, but I was hoping to hear more detailed instructions on exactly how you dosed the kalk, in top off or a different line? Just wasn’t very detailed.

[bubblebaath]

My tank is slowly starting to crash coz I’m going in year 12 now and have so little time, finally setting up kalk and mag dosing today tho and once it’s all dialled in, it should be much easier to keep everything alive

[alainrobitaille]

It's just amazing, I just discover your method last night. On my side I use calcium reactor for my 380 gal reef tank. Did you have negative effects at the beginning when you adjust for the proper dosing of kalk? From what I understand with your method, I should disconnect my calcium reactor and use only kalk for a better result? Do you add kalk at night only, all time or twice a day? Is there a danger for calcium precipitation if you add too much too fast? Thanks for your advice

[NickRosePhotos]

You should check out telegraham. He is dosing kalk slurry. I believe he is doing 1 cup of of Calcium Hydroxide to one gallon which is 24x the concentration of typical mix. He uses a Jebao SLW-10 to keep it constantly mixed.

[scottb]

Can you do a video, more on the equipment needed to do this method.. For those on a budget and have smaller systems 200 gal and less. controller / ph probe / dosing pump.

[a.fab.antonfabrication]

I’ve put off switching from 2 part for this no one can explain it like Chris 🌱🌿🌴

[andrew]

Hi chris I’m dosing kalc through the nite (12 hrs ) by a dossing pump, my main concern is I haven’t got a apex . So no turning off or on, my evaporation is 3 1/2 ltes per day so I just does the kalcwasser no r/o . Can you see this being a problem as my kalc may rise 🤷🏻‍♂️😀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍

[Andy_Quek]

Hello Chris, thank you for above precious informations and I would like to make a daring try(due to the likelyhood of high Alk changes). Im having a 20gallon ios tank my question is how should I take care of the trace element

[reef-management-LLC]

Is there a link to exactly how to dose the kalk

[Movens_Horacious]

I began this method and it seems like every so often, during the day my PH drops down below where I want it and my controller needs to frequently dose the kalk to bring it back up. I’m chalking this up to seasonal changes when I have windows open/closed. Since Chris programmed the Apex to only dose at night, should I follow suit and just deal with the occasional PH dip, or should I just keep my controller programmed to maintain 8.3 24/7 like it’s been? Thanks for any help of anyone can respond !