Do I need a calcium reactor?

[PrettyFishies]

Is it necessary to use a calcium reactor to maintain calcium levels? Or should I just plan on dosing with my Evs 2 part?

Pros and cons?

 

[Mebbid]

Calcium reactors are ridiculous pieces of equipment. You really don't need one for healthy params.

 

[mrvincent]

Lol I only dose small amount of kent turbo-calcium, and it raise at 500ppm... If it's easy for you to dose it (daily?) manually until you reach 450ppm, then you really far from need a calcium reactor !

Just test for the daily or weekly calcium consumption rate, and dose according to this...

 

[PrettyFishies]

I decided to buy a dosing pump and will test and measure consumption. I want to lessen maintenance as much as I can because I get busy and forget.

 

[alco1]

what brand did you for with the doser? been contemplating getting pone myself

 

[PrettyFishies]

Bulk reef supply. Watch the video on their site and you'll see why I chose that one.

 

[PrettyFishies]

Pumps came. Here's the setup. Waiting on the 2-part and the timers

 

[mr_X]

Lol I only dose small amount of kent turbo-calcium, and it raise at 500ppm... If it's easy for you to dose it (daily?) manually until you reach 450ppm, then you really far from need a calcium reactor !

Just test for the daily or weekly calcium consumption rate, and dose according to this...

better watch dumping calcium in the tank without tending to the alk. You are going to end up doing more harm than good. If I was going to dose something, it would be alk, not calcium. Corals just grow a little slower with low calcium- corals die from alk fluctuations.

 

[mrvincent]

better watch dumping calcium in the tank without tending to the alk. You are going to end up doing more harm than good. If I was going to dose something, it would be alk, not calcium. Corals just grow a little slower with low calcium- corals die from alk fluctuations.

According to RedSea tests, my alk doesn't move too much... Even if I dose calcium...

 

[mr_X]

Maybe time for new test kits.