Pickling Lime

[SSalty]

Has anyone else heard of using pickling lime to dose for calcium?

 

[yote]

I'm using it to maintain my calcium.Its just kalkwassier without the fancy name.

 

[d.french]

same here, how much do you use per gallon of top off water yote.

 

[yote]

I'm using 2 teaspoons per gallon.I figured that since its basically just cheap kalk that I could just use the same dosage.Plus instead of dripping it,I pour it into my ATO container.
Been working great so far.

 

[reeffreak]

I like to leave the picking lime to illegal immigrants.

 

[d.french]

cool, i wasn't sure, i've been using only 1 teaspoon. works great coralline algae has exploded thanks to pickling lime.

 

[poppinfresh]

Heres an excellent article about kalkwasser from Randy Holmes-Farley THE expert on reef chemistry.

What Your Grandmother Never Told You About Lime by Randy Holmes-Farley - Reefkeeping.com

 

[SSalty]

Yote, do you test for calcium? If so, what kind of readings are you getting with the pickling lime?

 

[SSalty]

Heres an excellent article about kalkwasser from Randy Holmes-Farley THE expert on reef chemistry.

What Your Grandmother Never Told You About Lime by Randy Holmes-Farley - Reefkeeping.com

Thanks for sharing the article.

 

[Doc]

Dominick,

I love illegal immigrants....they taste like chicken! :bounce:

-Doc

 

[Bifferwine]

Ummm is this a good time to tell you to get back on topic? Yeah. I think once we get to devouring the help, it's time to move on.

 

[Doc]

-giggle

-Doc

 

[Bifferwine]

Okay, but it was funny, I'll give you that.

 

[yote]

Yote, do you test for calcium? If so, what kind of readings are you getting with the pickling lime?

Salty,I test my calcium every week.
It was dropping from 480 to like 350 in a weeks time.Not that I've started using the pickling lime,its only dropping to 400 to 420.

 

[d.french]

sps can hog up all the calcium quick, almost time to upgrade to calcium reactor they don't add calcium just keep calcium level steady.

 

[yote]

If I had room for a reactor,I'd probably try one.

 

[Bifferwine]

I've been using the Kent Marine Liquid Reactor. It says on the bottle that it acts just as effectively as a calcium reactor, even for SPS dominated tanks. So far so good, and I have about 20 SPS frags in my tank.

 

[reeffreak]

I never did pick up the liquid reactor.I'm glad it works well for you.Time for me to pick some up.

 

[Doc]

I am just going to keep my SPS at a minimum. No more than 5-6 SPS. they should not use Calcium up too fast

-Doc

 

[SSalty]

Yote, Can you give me some suggestions on how I should add pickling lime to my 55? Like how much.

Thanks.