Balling and why

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by Aqua-Digital

We are also offering 2 canreefers the opportunity to try out the proper balling system for free.

We will supply these selected reefers

1 x pack of Tropic marin balling starter. (further refills at discount for a period of 1 year)

To qualify
You must PROVE you already dose a 3 part/Light or 2 part system
Your tank must be over 100 gallons and SPS in the main.

If the lucky two wish at the end to write a review we would be happy to read it but its not a requirement.

email us DO NOT PM to sales@aqua-digital.com

So I am guessing the original balling is only for big tanks.

[Aqua-Digital]

seriously!

erm NO

It is good for any tank size, but our offer for now is for the more well stocked tanks to give a faster and better representation.

[Aqua-Digital]

Here is a great thread from Zeovit.com where one user switched from doing a NON NACL balling system to the full system as per hans original recipe

Hi,
My tank runs the balling system together with Zeo. At the very beginning of using the balling I didn't add NaCl free salts. There were 4 solutions: calcium chloride dihydrate, magnesium chloride hexahydrate, magnesium sulphate heptahydrate and sodium hydrogen carbonate. I used to have trouble with keeping water parameters stabile then. After about half a year I introduced some changes; instead of magnesium sulphate heptahydrate I started using NaCl free salts and noticed that parameters became steady. Since then there has been the need to adjust them sporadically.
Do NaCl free salts cause the build-up of the elements? I don't know, I haven't seen any evidence of that so far. My corals are fine, the live rocks are clear, without undesirable algae or any other nasty stuff. Everything is ok. Maybe in case of an excessive additional supplementing along with the balling method with NaCl free salts, there's a major increase in some elements and perhaps that's a problem.
I'm neither a scientist nor a chemist, so I can't say for sure whether NaCl free salts with Zeo are a good or bad thing. As most of you, I try something and then observe the effects. For me it has worked, at least so far.
More than 3 years have passed since I started the balling method and about 2 years of Zeo method.
These pictures aren't made up by Photoshop or another programme - they show real colours in my tank. The pics were taken yesterday. There have been 8 months after publishing my tank as DTOTQ of the second quarter of 2009.

[Chase31]

Originally Posted by mrhasan

So I am guessing the original balling is only for big tanks.

I by no means would know at all but it appears to be similar to 2 part dosing and can be used in any size system by the amount you choose to add if you have a 50g Sps tank you probably need to dose some sort of calcium and with this system you just dose accordingly (correct me if I'm wrong.

[Aqua-Digital]

Hi

2 part was a crude cut down very basic off shoot of the Balling system. As written above 2 part and also every other type of 3 part creates ionic imbalances and also do not add the same level of elements found in natural sea water.

Also no you would NOT have to add calcium to this system. As written above the system incorporates all elements including Calcium.

If you have a smaller system you just adjust the dosing accordingly, you could run this system on a 1 gallon pico system if you really wanted to

[Aqua-Digital]

I will be adding more important info soon to another thread but thanks for everyones feedback and ineterest in the genuine system by the man that invented it.