Kalkwasser or Turbo Calcium

[kwan]

I have a FOWLR tank and I have been toping up my calcium with Kent's Turbo Calcium. But from the forum I have read most people are topping off with Kalkwasser. Should I change to Kalkwasser or stay with Turbo Calcium? And can anyone give me the pros and cons of either method?

Many Thanks!

 

[yaksplat]

Is your LR using that much Ca that you need to add more to the tank?

 

[brndfrb]

first of all you shouldn't be using that much calcium with only LR. Do you test for your calcium? If the kent stuff is keeping it up then i would stick with that.

 

[saltcreep1025]

if all u have is LR then waterchanges should take care of everything

 

[kwan]

Mine is a 45g tank with 40lb LR. Recently the coralline algae is taking over the LR and the calcium would drop from about 400 to 360 every week. I top it up with Turbo Calcium once a week. Everything else seems to be fine; alk at 10kH, mag at 1100, NO2 at 0, N03 at 0 and PO4 almost 0 as well. So I don't understand why I am using so much calcium.

 

[reefrunner69]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I personally like balanced additive and having turbo ca and buffer on hand to nudge it when it get's out of balance, but if it's working for you...continue and monitor.