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![]() i use 5g ato water how much vinegar do i use with that
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![]() try 1/3 cup vinegar I also used a 5g ATO put your kalk in a container, bowl or whatever then add the vinegar mix it until no lumps I then added it to my full 5g bucket of RO water
never had any sediment in my ATO bucket you can also search on youtube for how to do this as well
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![]() I agree with raising the pump draw level. The wife's tank only runs kalk as a top up with the aqua lifter pump. It draws 2 inches up from the bottom of the container. Also I don't use the prefilter and never had a problem with clogging.
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![]() So i fill up about every 4 days with a new batch of kalk, do i need to clean the bottom of my ato bin, as there is a lot of white stuff on the bottom, or can i just add my 5g of ro water with new kalk to it
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![]() Don't understand you don't use the pre filter in the aqua-lifter pump, do i have to take a part out from my pump
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![]() You could buy or build a Nilson Reactor.
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