How to Elevate Your Ph With Kalkwasser

DISCLAIMERS:
(1) Presented results do not happen overnight. It takes months to see effects of kalkwasser on your system, so be patient!

(2) HTA does not recommend running a 8.5 average on Ph. We highly recommend trying on run a 8.3 average. 8.1 - 8.2 is totally fine as well and your corals will thank you!

(3) Keep an eye on. your CALCIUM, it will slowly rise through kalkwasser dosing. When it gets too high, take kalkwasser dosing offline for a few days, until your Calcium falls back to natural levels. Substitute with a two-part alkalinity buffer to keep your alkalinity stable during that period.
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High Tide Aquatics is located at 2819 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94602

[thomasdirocco]

One safety tip to add on to Kenny's great explanation, you can add the kalk powder to the full water amount to prevent breathing caustic dust and splashing it into your eyes.

Kalk is cheap and so much more reliable now with dosing pumps. Having one single additive helps both newer and experienced reefers alike reduce the complexity of the hobby!

[arashvarzandeh]

Awesome. Most simplest and easily understandable kalkwasser video I’ve seen. Ozone next please!

[johngraves]

Great video! This is how I’ve been doing it for a long time. It’s nice seeing someone else using the Sentia dosers, they’re awesome dosers that are very underrated. Cheers!

[fostee]

Great vid. Love the info and tribute to Jake

[acrocapital]

Seeing this tank in person inspired me to start dosing kalkwasser on my system! Thank you for doing a video on how you do this.

[cody-zo]

Miss you everyday Jake, cant image how beautiful his tanks are passed through the gates of heaven!

[eqbalaizimi]

Very thorough and easy to understand! thanks!

[erReefer]

Great seeing you today my friend. Keep up the great work!

[rubenespinosa]

High tide I also tried to achieve your method in my own methodology but my alkalinity always jumps up to 12 dkh before I have to stop the process, I run a calcium reactor and adjusting the reactor in conjunction to doseing the kale proves difficult because a reactor is basically a set and foreget piece of equipment so I’m open to suggestions on the ph issue as well, two part might be a bit more fore giving In adjustments but I’m still trying to figure it out. Great video by the way 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Coral-reef.]

Hey man im trying to figure the kalkwasser thing out but im still confused. My tank is very simple i even top off manually. So how do you dose kalwasser to a 60 gallon tank in the most simple way ? Please reply to me my ph is at 7.5 😢

[andrew]

Hi can you help I want to dose 3.5 lites per 12 hrs .( evaporation 3-5 to 4 ) I was thinking of dosing 6ml per minute . 6 x 60sec =360 p/hr x 12hr =4320ml x 7 days = 30, 240 ( just over 30 ltes ) can you see this being a problem 🤷🏻‍♂️as I haven’t got ph controller.👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😀

[engelitoalcantara]

Hello sir, just bought the aquavitro doser as well. How were you able to figure out that it doses every 7mins? I would like to figure that out as well. I’m going to dose at night over a 12 hour period dosing only 200ml . How do I figure out when it doses?

[islandreef]

Thinking of switching from all for reef to kalkwasser in a mainly lps and softie tank. Can i still use my ato and dose only a small amounts at night only?

[CoralReefkid]

Would you dose kalkwasser alongside an all in one product like tropic Marin all for reef?
Also, if my BRS kalkwasser bag hasn’t been sealed properly for months, is the contents now junk?

[stoneyman]

How often do you remove the slurry buildup

[joshp]

I currently started using kalkwasser ph now stays between 8.0-8.3. But my alkalinity is constantly going down.

[Ricflairnatureboy]

how do you like the hydros control vs apex?

[samuelphillian]

Do I need kalkwasser on a 13 gallon soft coral tank?

[scottb]

How high is to high for cal..before water change or stop kalk?