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    Anyone have alot of sponges?

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    I have ordered from the site referenced above once and it was a nightmare. The double charged me for a $250 pair of fish and it took us 3 months of pestering them to get our money back. We ended up filing a complaint with the BBB and a fraudulent charge with our credit card company to finally get the charge reversed. You may want to check them out a little closer before ordering from them. Check them out at the BBB site for the state of florida.

     

    Dave

    aArrGgh......thats too bad they look like they have some sweet stuff. Anyone else know a nice site for sponges? I may still try an order, how was the quality of the things you bought from them?

    Hey you Kalk drippers-Input appreciated

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    If you have high evaporation have it stir less? I only stir once a day and my Kalk is lasting forever and my PH stays at 8.3

     

    I was sort of under the impression stir and let sit. Also you can have your top off feed low and into the kalk or do what I do and leave it high in the reactor so as to produce a much more diluted mix. No matter what I get 9.4 ph or higher in my make up water

    Kalk Questions

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    I think I go about 3 months on a pound of lime... I've never really kept track' date=' but that seems about right. It's not a year, but it's a lot better than adding to ATO water a couple of times a week.[/quote']You have high evaporation? I filled my reactor about 2 months ago and cant see where any has been lost, maybe a 1/4 cup out of 1-1/2 cups. Maybe I dont stir enough

    Elos/Salifert test kits

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    People that live in close proximity to each other could split the cost on a meter and share, I would love to do this but live close to no one. I have the $45 calcium and strontium kits that will expire a 100 tests before I use them, if I were in close proximity just trade them off and when the last persons done........start it all over again.

    Kalk Questions

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    I set up a Ca reactor and kalk reactor a few weeks ago and my parameters have never been so stable. Miss a day dosing and things go downhill quickly. Sure, the reactors take a bit of tweaking but things are becoming quite stable at this point and require very few (if any) adjustments.

    I'm about in need of more kalk powder so I'm going to have to make it to wal-mart, dangit!

    Just curious, If you have a Kalk reactor and only set it up a few weeks ago shouldnt it be good for a year-ish.

     

    I thought that was the "selling point" of a kalk reactor was dump in a cup or two and forget them since theres no oxygen the stuff lasts untill completely gone?

    Who's using Kalk reactor w/ Ca Reactor-I would like your input-Pleez

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    I've read both of those Andy-Thanks!, and I agree with you and he.

    I'm going to build a Kalk "tower" and it will help me get to the Ca level of 500 I want,and will make the PH thing moot

    Maybe I can get a clear plastic cylinder from the "tobacco shop" down the street-(laugh)

     

    That guy also sent me information, I guess the owner has let some of the coral farm go down hill and is shippingit to this guys house so maybe some choice specimens are in the pipeline-(rock2)- I hate that "smiley" reminds me of Juniour High which makes me remeber how old I am-(laugh)

     

     

     

    A-"GREED"

    Check out the "Plastics" places, Ive bought alot from http://www.multicraftplastics.com/ in Tigard. the place is awesome and has tons of scraps, bet you could find almost everything there

    Who's using Kalk reactor w/ Ca Reactor-I would like your input-Pleez

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    Why? As I read it he's basically saying that kalk is a good thing and is easy, both of which are true. You don't even need a reactor, you can add the lime directly to your top-off water (2 tsp / gallon) and as long as you keep the top-off water covered it's all good -- the reactor just lets you skip this step (adding lime every time you run the RODI). Randy Holmes-Farley (RC's aquarium uberchemist) just adds it to his top-off water, and he certainly knows what he's doing.

     

    Kalk has other benefits besides adding balanced Ca/alk and maintaining pH stability; it also helps reduce phosphate levels. Check out What Your Grandmother Never Told You About Lime, it's good stuff.

     

    I think dripping kalk is a fundamental "best practice" for reef aquariums. I wouldn't run a tank without it (either added directly to top-off water, or via reactor).

     

    He also seems to be saying that all these goofy, expensive supplement schemes are snake oil -- something else I happen to agree with. This guy *does* know his stuff (laugh)

    He may be talking about the Zeovit part, that was kind of the response I got from some trusted people I spoke with......they thought it was a company feeding on reefers obsessive compulsive disorders and hammering them with over priced voodoo.

     

    What in this hobby isnt overpriced, its one of the worst in my opinion, put the word Reef or Fish on a product and jack the price double,triple, quadruple its real worth. Greed, not a good thing.

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