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I don’t dose with it, but lots of people do. Regarding the effect on pH, it’s the same ratio of pH effect relative to how much alkalinity you are adding compared with kalkwasser CaOH2. So you’ll get the same boost as you would with kalkwasser as an alkalinity additive. You can make NaOH much...

Tony earning his good karma for the year

I appreciate you elevating the tank so I don’t have to bend over and crane my neck down to see in :) I have to make some time to come by soon

Also if you use kalkwasser you can dose the approximate amount of evaporative loss you have so that you almost never need to have your ATO on, decreasing noise/risk. ;)

When it comes to preventing unwanted siphons when unattended, you need to be able to be 100% sure. The problem with relying on poking a hole in the tubing, or probably the Red Sea siphon break thing, is that the tiniest clog of the siphon break hole and then you have an unexpected siphon again...

Derek lapping the rest of us

It’s funny that coloration is what triggers interest in K levels when it is one of the most important ions in healthy animal physiology including corals. Too high and too low are very bad for cells

Is that you in the video?

One of my all time favorite gifs

Not messing around

I have 2 Planks in service. One for SF freeze dried Mysis plus small amount of Reef Jerky. Second for pellets- about half medium size TDO (EP-1) and the other half whatever other pellets I have like Ocean Nutrition Formula 2 or various ones I’m trying. The main reason I have 2 Planks is that I...

I wouldn’t dose ground up rock salt to my tank for what it’s worth if that’s what you have for KCl dip. It might be fine or it might not be.

I haven’t used any that I dislike. Potassion works well, probably others do too. Just dose a lot less than you think you need and retest. You don’t want to overshoot. The only way to lower K is massive water changes.

Yes K is worth testing occasionally and supplementing as needed. I didn’t know that about AFR. I’ve used “Potassion” from Brightwell for years. But you could just use the KCl dip that has become popular if you have a clean source, requires some extra math.

The main innovation of the Balling method was to dose with proportions that took into account that NaCl is produced when Alk and Ca are consumed. Before that (and still for many methods) dosing would lead to NaCl (salinity) rising the more you dose and consume Alk and Ca. As you dilute back down...

It’s easy to say things are obvious or derivative years later after success and copycats. Triton started in 2008, was revolutionarily different from everything else, and not at all obvious.

I’m curious what ultras wound up coming. Since we had a bunch submitted that I haven’t seen at swaps before.

No, but Gerry volunteered to bring it by, likely tomorrow morning

Yeah! What he said

I agree completely with everything you are saying. And from your perspective of a person deciding what to buy and what to sell and for how much, it entirely makes sense. Perspective is everything with this. I’m just saying that that is not what’s going on here. No one in the club is...