i think it's the mustache accelerating your coral growth

The studio looks really well thought out. I'm a huge kalkwasser fan. Took the 2 part off my system and never looked back. So many benefits, not enough time.

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Thanks Jake keep popping them out the Internet is boring without your videos

I'm just excited about new videos 2 days in a row! Your studio looks awesome. Would love to visit someday!

Great video Jake! Good to see you sharing the secrets of your success. I am curious about that new Hanna ph meter. What is the life of the electrode? Typically we replace regular probes every 1-2 years

Great videos! I just started using Kalkwasser last week. Huge improvement of coral color and growth.

Great vid about ph! Some people say don’t chase ph and I’ve always had trouble with my old tank keeping it at 7.8. Since I bought my waterbox I’ve been able to utilize the top-off to help me with this issue. I tried kalk but hated having to clean my ato every 5 days. I used aqua vitro 8.4 and has been awesome in maintaining at 8.3-8.4. I still have to dose a little alk and could prob just bump up the amount of 8.4. Recently I changed to continuum kh and am currently dialing in the amount to does in my ato. I would have love to stayed w the 8.4, but finding gallons is a hassle and I can get the same amount of continuum for $20 or so less.

Great video Jake! Great points covered on what A LOT of people over look

Strong strong facial hair game going on here Jake, inspirational stuff dude.

I’m really into this idea. Can’t praise it enough 🙌

Your studio is really looking great.

Seeing you with a mustache for my first time in the vid made me smile sooooo hard, just shaved myself into one lol

Miss u man 😢

How do you know how often you should add more Kalkwasser to the reactor and how frequently do you clean them? How do you feel about the reactors that just tie into your ATO vs the stand alone units?

“Just raise your freaking pH” - Jake Adams

Two little fishies also makes a great kalkwasser reactor ;) take care good video

damn bro the place is looking great! your vision is coming to life! do you plan on opening this to the public in the future or is this just for your own personal use. i live in laguna hills oc and would absolutely LOVE to see this in person and just talk to you and see this place for myself. btw i told everyone at the sand bar to check out your videos because i saw you wearing their shirt in your one video. lol they were so excited and pulled the video up right on the store computer hahah. great work bro i always tell people to check out your channel.

I completely agree about high pH. I first started reefing in 2002 (my first saltwater aquarium, fish only, was in 1993). I started with soft corals and after a few months started adding some lps. To keep up with calcium demands I started using kalkwasser. Every week I would have my water tested by a lfs that I worked at and after using kalkwasser as my top off the pH changed from 7.8 to 8.1 or 8.2. everyone else would always tell me that my pH was too high but my lps and a montipora Digitata (my first and only SPS at that time) were growing very fast, noticably faster than when I wasn't using kalkwasser and my pH stayed between 7.7-7.9. I originally thought it was just the extra calcium from the kalk solution, but then I tried doing things to lower the pH. I added a large refugium (40g breeder on a 46g bowfront) and the pH stayed between 7.5-7.7. At that pH my corals growth slowed down noticably (I didn't notice any differences in the growth rates of my softies during this time. The montipora Digitata, and the montipora Capricornis that I added to the tank, always made the difference in growth rates very obvious. After a year with the big refugium (a 40g refugium on a 46g display tank is pretty darn big. I'm willing to bet that the refugium held more water than the display because of all the love rock in the display) and lower pH, growth was surprisingly slow although the tank looked amazing and nitrates, nitrites, phosphate, etc were pretty much nonexistent. So, I switched to a small hob refugium and turned the 40g breeder into a frag tank. The pH Willy went back up to 8.1 and the montiporas started growing much faster, especially the monti Cap. Since then I've almost always kept the pH around 8.1 (there were two other times in the last 15 years that I thought about lowering pH. 1 time because I thought it would happen again because this time I was adding another large refugium but I was adding it as a display refugium rather than a refugium just to grow chaeto (I remember when I used caulerpa, before there was much talk about chaeto and had a few caulerpa outbreaks. I quickly switched to cheato and never looked back) and I've never had any problems. Also, I've always thought that kalk has been way undervalued/underrated. About 10 years ago I stopped using kalkwasser and started dosing everything in my main display tank, but I still used my kalk reactor on my frag tank and frags of corals from the display tank grew much faster in my kalk-fed frag tank. After a few months of that I added a Deltec kalk reactor to the display and growth rates immediately rose. Since then I've continued to use kalk on all of my tanks and never worried about my pH being about 8.2. So, for myself, I've always had great success with kalk and higher pH, but that's one of my loves about this hobby. Sometimes, two tanks with different techniques, equipment, parameters, etc can produce the same and excellent results. Do whatever works best for you. I know of fellow hobbyists that have amazing tanks and their pH never goes above 7.7. I tell people all the time that I want my calcium to stay above 400, but I've had tanks that rarely could keep above 350 and those tanks did just as good as the tanks that stayed around 450. What I always tell new people to the hobby is that consistency is far more important than specific numbers/parameters. Keeping your pH between 7.4-7.6, 8.2-8.4, etc is far better than having it bounce around between 7.6-8.2. For me, consistency is the most important way to maintain a good reef. I no longer care if parameters are a little high or a little low. I just want them to stay consistent.

Can’t wait for my first reef stock and hope to get to shake your hand Jake.

great video Jake

Cool video Jake. How about dosing Kalk mix using dosing pump?

I love my Avast kalkstirrer. I dose RO with my Apex DOS which makes adjustments really easy, just have to check the nozzle weekly for blockages as I’ve had a few. pH around 8.4 at peak right now with 615ml in a Red Sea Reefer 170. I am still adjusting up as my coral growth has increased a lot since dosing kalkwasser.

Great video, thank you so much.

I must agree with Kalk. I run it on all my tanks found out 4 years ago it was better than dosing from the results I seen with my 54 gallon.

Time flies, the studio looks so bare😮

Hi Jake When do you refill the kalk reactor? Do you have 2 diferent ways to keep salinity gravity and dosing pump?

I feel like you just got got so much more dignified with the mustache. Instead of hearing thoughts from just a reeef dude it’s like listening to a professor. You even speak different with the mustache. What kind of tank is the one you’re keeping your corals in? Or did you build that one?

This video is aging well!

Jake... Love the video like always, but when did you get Ron Jeremy to stand in??? (Porn Mustache humor)..lol

Hey Jake, I would love to try that Kalk+2. Do you know how much magnesium it delivers along with calcium and alk?

Cool , Do you just keep dripping fully saturated , full strength Kali until PH maxes out & then reduce drips if necessary ? Quadenateing with ATO . How often & How Do you know when to change & clean . Maybe a whole nother video?

What was the name of the Kalk reactor you use and where do they sell at? I have a two little fishies one but like those you have .

You mention montipora loves magnesium and that product from brightwell. So how does dkh have any effect together with ph for coral growth in red sea product? Since ph is to lower the accidity in the tank when calcium level is raise using carbon dioxide and coral crush?

What was the dosing pump you referenced? I always look forward to these videos! Always super quality and helpful! The lighting in this video was especially nice!!!

How do you know how much kacl 2 you have to put in the reactor? And can the Kalkwasser be combined with an organic baling, such as Tropic Marine all for reef?

whats the name brand of the reactor and where can I buy one just like yours

hi, so you use slurry and not saturated kalkwasser, could you explain the reason ? thanks

I love your place.

Great video man 👌🏻How often do you refill your Kalkwasser Stirrer’s with Kalkwasser and how do you know when to refill them?

Sweet another one👍🏻👍🏻

do you have a ph probe hooked into the reactor? I have a red sea kalk reactor that doesnt offer pH probe input.

You need some aviators for that amazing mustache!

What’s going on with your alkalinity? Concerns, practices, and so on. Kalkwasser will or does affect alkalinity. Just wondering how you deal with parameters.

Like the mustache,,, Nice gadget 👍

Hi, why don't you add à kalwasser according of the ph and not the evaporation? Thx

Love the centralized top off tanks. Good stuff! Whats the ph of that stash? Looks to be at chuck Norris levels.

One day Jake is going to post a video on how he wished he’d gotten an apex a long time ago. Until then, a “single use test” is still apparently better than a continuous log. Love the videos. 😉

Is there any point where you'd say the pH is too high? A year ago i ran a mix of kalk in my ATO alpng with 2 part. My pH was 8.4 but my alk levels werent stable so i switched to 2 part only and got them stable. Which is more important in your opinion stable alk or high pH?

I also use a Avast Kalk stirrer, with a Neptune Dos. I set the dose to replenish what my systems Alk demand is for a twenty four hour period, then my ato takes care of the extra tank evaporation. My Ph runs between 8.1-8.25. Should I keep my Alk around 8.5ish or just set the dose to dose the entire evaporation amount for a twenty four hour period and just let the Alk rise, to increase PH higher? Thanks, Brian

when dosing kalk to increase pH you all so have the side effect of increasing calcium and alk. I dose triton which already has alk and calc, is there a way to avoid upping the ALK to much in this situation ? Thanks

Excellent!

How do I achieve dosing a 125 if I'm currently dosing equal parts of Calcium, Alk, Mag? How much kalk+2 vs liquid dosing sir?

yea i keep mine at 8.3 new baby polyps growing every month or so

cool video jake, i suffer from low PH levels and tried using kalkwasser but it raised my alkalinity levels pretty high. Do you suffer from high alk levels when using Kalk? What levels do you keep yours around? Cheers!

When you say "freshwater", do you mean RO water?? Very interested in giving the avast unit a try. Currently ph 8.1. Thanks in advance, ken

So do most ppl who dose kalkwasser not dose two part? I'm seeing many comments about how you don't address alk/pH relationship etc.

is the kalk stirrer dripping 24/7 or connected to the ATO?

Can you explain me is Kalkwasser only for calcium or also for dosing alkalinity in tank or? If I go with Kalkwasser do I need still dose alkalinity or I can quit with this because it is all in one? I have low demand tank but have problems with Ph. tnx

Great video! So, please confirm your daily top off for all those tanks is kalkwasswer? No fresh rodi direct regarding top off? 7 liters of kalk a day to one tank means the CA-RX had to be re-tuned as kalk effects dkh, correct?

how did you get 1/4" line onto that 1/2" barb?

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Ok jake I’ve been using calk for months and my cal and alk rising like crazy and my ph just at 7.68 sometimes lower , what’s happening please help

Ok Jake you need to answer us this question. I was looking back at the comments and a few people asked this with no answer. If your ph is low but your calcium and alkalinity are high, what happens to those parameters if you add kalkwasser. My calcium is always at 450. I don’t have enough corals yet to drive that down. But my ph is always 7.9 to 8.1. How would I get that up. Thanks for the advice I think this is one of the biggest questions we new reefers have.

Have you had any issues with kalk clogging the 1/4 line? I have a standard 1/2 barb with vinyl tubing and the end where is drips into tank clogged after about 3-4 months and overflowed reactor

Love the ph meter. What model is it?

If my tank daily evaporate 500ml and I use normal dosing pump to fill up rodi in. So in this case I just run thru the kalkwasser reactor while dosing 500ml? Because my CR been running like 80ml permin set in versa. Main tank Ph keep at 7.8.

How much of kalk you dose in every gallon of water?

Should i add buffer during night or day???

Are you calculating how much kalkwasser to add by maintaining a certain ALK level? What does your alk test at in these tanks?

That was bad ass

It occurred to me this morning that I should be utilizing my saltwater quarantine tank to grow out some macroalgae. Nearby I have Co2 injecting into freshwater tanks. I have an open nozzle on the 6 way splitter. Think it would be worth injecting CO2 into that tank when it only has macroalgae in it?

Do you dose kalk all day or just at night

Hello everyone, Good morning I want to know why you use LEDs of this brand and do not use Kessil? Why is it expanded less energy? Or better quality spectrum terms?

So how do you dose so much kalkwasser if you don't have that much calcium/alkalinity uptake? I realize higher ph = faster uptake, but at some point (probably early on) you won't have enough corals to suck the calcium & alkalinity out fast enough and then you'll spike both of those? Or will they simply precipitate out of the water?

I have a question what is your parameters that you run your tanks at? Because my ph is at 8.2-8.3 an my cal is at 460-480. N I saw on some forms that to get rapidly coral growth for lps you want to be around 11.8-12.0 for alk. N I've been running them parameters for about a month n I'm seeing my coral thrived an grow but seem but now they seem to stop growing so idk what is a good spot to keep alkalinity at? So I figured you could help me out with that thanks

Hi Jake , where does all the tubing go to feed your tanks with fresh water , by the ceiling?

No t5 lightning?!?

Should be good to know if the Kalkwaser will affect any other parameter like Alk... what about if I want to keep my PH in 8.4 but Alk in 7???

Well said Jake. Keep the good videos coming. Love you content. On a side note is that stand strong enough for a barrel of water?

Jake was playing some PokémonGo! 💙💙

How high can the pH go until it is not good for the corals? Thank you for sharing this video.

It is pointless to run a calcium reactor and calcium hydroxide if you really understand chemistry, although you need both when running a calcium reactor. You can use sodium hydroxide, or potassium hydroxide*.

What kalk reactor would you recommend for a 90 gallon system? Should I integrate it with the ato or use a dosing pump with a rodi reservoir?

Great video! I started reading about this Kalk +2 after watching it. A quick google search I find some posts by Randy Holmes stating that the Mag actually settles out in the lime water. Now... These posts were from long ago. So I am curious if anyone has used this product and tested Mag before hand and after?

I'm dosing Bulk Reef Kalk & I still can't get my PH past 8.1 without pushing my Alk past 10 🤦‍♂️. I gave up

Jake how much is that ph tester that thing is fantastic 👍

Anyway to increase ph beside using KAL?

Any link for the ph probe?

RIP JAKE

How do you know when you need to put more kalk in the reactor?

Are you adjusting your ph based on the lowest point (when lights kick on) or at its highest reading? Another wards do you want your ph to mimic ocean at 8.2 (or higher) when lights are on?

Second take in mirror aviator sunglasses.

Guess i'm lucky my tank keeps a constant 8.2 to 8.3 with little work

Any problem yet with humidity with all those uncovered tanks?

Ah the ol gentleman down south but a badboy above the lip look. 👍

the new one you was showing

Ur as giddy as a school girl,!, great vid!

I had switched from 2part to the Brightwell Aquatics Kalk a year or so ago. My Coraline exploded; I got notably increased coral growth and it's easy to use. I'm a big kalk believer!

Nice!