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Old 11-27-2006, 10:52 AM
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Since many of you getting food quality of Kalk from ChemMaster (Littlesilvermax), I would like to know what is the recommended dose of it to mix per liter of water.. I am new to Kalk and first time using it and bought some from ChemMaster. Need to know how many teaspoon/L to mix up the water.

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Old 11-27-2006, 01:13 PM
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Most use 1 Teaspoon Kalkwasser powder per 1 Gallon (4.5 L) of RO water.
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Old 11-27-2006, 01:24 PM
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Min 1/8tsp to a max of 2tsp/gallon
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Old 11-28-2006, 04:42 AM
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at what rate do you add it to your tank/sump?
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Old 11-28-2006, 05:53 AM
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At what rate, I am really not sure.. thinking about 2L/24hrs. So I might need to experiment with just top off water dripping without Kalk mix so I can find the perfect or close to it for the dripping rate. It will be directly into the tank.
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Old 11-28-2006, 05:59 AM
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At what rate...?

The answer to that one is...

As much as is required to keep up with your Ca/Alk demand. Could be anywhere from none to more than evaporation.
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Old 11-30-2006, 02:30 PM
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sorry for not understand your question when you asking for ... "at what rate". I am decided to try Kalk after having the tank for slighly over a year. So there is a lot of thing I am learning about it. I haven't set it up yet, but got the Kalk Power, Aquadose 2.5 dripping container.. Just try to figure out how much to mix with how much water. The Evaporate of the tank fluctuated from time to time because of the Winter issue. The next is close to a wall on the 2nd floor in my bedroom, so the temperature inside the room effecting the evaporation of the tank. Sometime less and sometime more. =(
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