How many times can you use Kalkwasser?

[Klyle]

Go to YouTube and search bulk reef supply. Start watching all their videos. Only about 1000 of them. This will be a good starting point. I'm not making fun, but if you don't know what an ATO is and you're already ordering thousands in corals, you don't necessarily have your priorities in order to successfully keep a reef tank. Friendly advice

 

[Klyle]

Go to YouTube and search bulk reef supply. Start watching all their videos. Only about 1000 of them. This will be a good starting point. I'm not making fun, but if you don't know what an ATO is and you're already ordering thousands in corals, you don't necessarily have your priorities in order to successfully keep a reef tank. Friendly advice

Haha this is from 2015. Hopefully you've figured it out by now

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Can you hook your ATO line into a Kalk stirrer like the Avast Marine K1 for its feed line. Or with this kind of device do you need to use a doser?

After all that, this is the new question that brought the thread back up.

There's no reason you cannot run an ATO through a kalk reactor. I've not done it that way, rather getting my ATO water from a settled reservoir.

But if the ATO pump is appropriately sized for flow through the reactor, it is fine.

 

[fragit]

After all that, this is the new question that brought the thread back up.

There's no reason you cannot run an ATO through a kalk reactor. I've not done it that way, rather getting my ATO water from a settled reservoir.

But if the ATO pump is appropriately sized for flow through the reactor, it is fine.

I’m not sure if mine is “appropriately” sized or not, I use a Spectrapure ATO which is basically a dosing pump on a pressure switch. It’s recommended to use a dosing pump to run one. So why not? And I didn’t revive this very old thread! It was @BiggestE22 back in December!

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I’m not sure if mine is “appropriately” sized or not, I use a Spectrapure ATO which is basically a dosing pump on a pressure switch. It’s recommended to use a dosing pump to run one. So why not? And I didn’t revive this very old thread! It was @BiggestE22 back in December!

The only concern is that some ATO's may deliver to fast. If you are using the Spectrapure G7, that will be fine.