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Coral issue

MadReefer

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Came home from vacation and my red cap fell and bleached bad, except for edges. Should I cut thr bleach part or leave it? Also, my frogspawn and hammer have receded.
 

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Daniel

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Yes alk is low. By you boosting it that will bring down your calcium. I would try to get your alk around 7.5 to 8.5. You will start to see new growth.
 

MadReefer

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The Alk won't stay steady at 8. Thinking of adding it my top off water. As I add about a gallon a day. Just need to figure out how much per gallon.
 

redfishbluefish

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Mark, try kalkwasser......aka, Mrs. Wages pickling lime. One teaspoon per gallon in your ATO water. I last bought this at Wal-Mart.
 

MadReefer

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I was using baking soda mixture. I have an old jar of kalk but not sure if its still good.
 

Trio91

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I use kalk in my ato, and have since day 1 without any issues. Just make sure that you allow it to settle out in your ato 1st. Also place a small platform (like egg rate or something ) to keep the pump off the bottom where the kalk "gunk" is. What u r looking for is the clear solution
 

MadReefer

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I Don't have a sump so my top off is manually adding a gallon each day. I have 7 separate gallons of water waiting. This is why I was using baking soda and not kalk.
One day when I get a sump different story.
 

MadReefer

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It's still good....extremely stable. Just realize only a little bit per gallon (1 teaspoon dissolves....more than that, and it gets tough).

Normally I would add it to the gallon and shake it up until dissolved. A few shakes over time; then poor 3/4 out carefully into another container and dispose of the residue.
 

Trio91

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you can place the container onto anything that's flat....in your case the center bar should work or a lid on your HOB fuge...no need to really mount anything unless you want to...i had my dripper sitting on my HOB fuge. i then just dripped it into the tank over the course of the day

in the Video at 3:38...the container is just sitting ontop of the AIO's rear chamber
 
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