Kalk Reactors

[soapy]

Originally Posted by fkshiu

Randy Holmes-Farley is the MAN!

I do a CaRx with kalk as well, but my kalk reactor is passive meaning that I don't have anything like powerhead stirring it up. It's just hooked up in my top off resevoir as part of my osmolator. I mainly use it to keep pH up as opposed to supplying the tank's Ca and Alk needs.

Hey Fkshiu,

how exactly do you run your kalk with your osmolater? I have a reservior with an osmolater and am interested in hooking something like that up.

[fkshiu]

Originally Posted by soapy

Hey Fkshiu,

how exactly do you run your kalk with your osmolater? I have a reservior with an osmolater and am interested in hooking something like that up.

I simply stuck a TLF phosban reactor on the outfeed of the osmolator pump. This way everytime the osmolator kicks in kalk water is mixed and pumped into the tank.

Tunze's calcium dispenser works exactly the same way except you pay a lot more for their container instead of a phosban reactor. I hooked up the reactor with the osmolator tubing using drip irrigation bits from Home Depot.

I simply refill the reactor with kalk once a week.

This passive method is not as effective in saturating the water with kalk as an active reactor whereby the kalk is stirred up on the regular basis. But it works fine for my purposes of simply keeping pH up with my calcium reactor doing the heavy lifting for Ca/Alk.

[globaldesigns]

Does anyone in the Calgary area have a kalkwasser mixer for sale? Just wondering, if so, please post specs and what you want for it. thanks.

I also have a Deltec Fluidizer not being used, can this be modded for this purpose?

[soapy]

Thanks fkshiu,

I will have to try rigging up some kind of tank gizmo after my osmolator.

[PoonTang]

I just mix my Kalk into my ATO water. One timer turns on the pump to the tank every 4 hours and another turns a pump on in the bucket and recirculates it 1 hour after. I just use 2 mj 400's. You can adjust the amount that you add to the tank with a little valve and adjust the kalk to your tanks requirements by how much you add to the bucket.