Maintaining Alkalinity and Calcium
 

I'm just interested in how everybody is maintaining their Alk and Cal regardless if they have predominantly sps or lps.
I guess there are several methods and realistically this should be two seperate polls. But I'm lazy and I would only like to vote in one poll instead of two.
So the choices are:
Calcium reactor ONLY
Calcium reactor and kalkwasser (limewater/calcium hydroxide)
kalkwasser ONLY
Brand name calcium and buffers products
Brand name two part calcium and alk additives
Homemade two part calcium and alk additives
I do nothing - just water changes
I do nothing - not even water changes

PS - brand name I'm referring to is like Kent or Seachem

I use a kalk reactor connected to my auto top-off. Sometimes I add buffer to tweak my alk, but the calcium hovers between 420 ppm to 450 ppm.

I use Kalk, spiked with vinegar, and kent 2 part, don't know which to vote for :biggrin:

I voted calcium reactor only but with 6 clams and SPS I do adjust every once in a while with turbo calcium (kent) and if I have to seachem reef builder or reef carbonate (basically the same thing - one powder and one liquid) for alk.

SeaChem's Reef Advantage Calcium and Reef Builder.

Kent Essential Elements and kalkwasser. Calcium is just over 400, Alk 10DKH

Drip kalk nightly. Add Mg weekly without testing. Also test for alk, Ca and Mg every 2-3 weeks and adjust where things are low, which Mg and alk usually are. Ca is sometimes low in one of the three tanks.

Ca Reactor only on the 230g.

Kalk for all top up plus homemade bulk calcium chloride and baking soda solutions.

Kalk on a dosing pump. Currently dosing 32ml/hr. Kalk is dosed independently from top off water. Sometimes need to adjust alkalinity by adding some Seachem reefbuilder (don't know why, it's just how my system behaves). Alk has needed less adjusting since my new skimmer was added.