Clogs the pumps and it's not a guarantee that it's "super saturated"
Pump clogging is pretty much a nonissue. I get at least five years out of a cheap pump for this task. Add kalk when refilling ato container, give it a few hours to settle out, good to go. Adding vinegar will allow more kalk to be added, but vinegar will also lower phosphate and nitrate which may or may not be a good thing.
Everyone just wants to help. Kalkwasser can certainly help promote a higher pH. It can also be administered using a stirrer and dosing pump. A controller is not necessary. It usually won't be as saturated out of the stirrer as it would from a bucket. Neither will you be able to add more than the quantity of water your system evaporated.
No I did it for many years my suggestion to you is to test regularly in the morning and in the afternoons are in the evenings then you will determine at that point what your fluctuation rates are with your pH your calcium your alkalinity your magnesium you can determine at that point the amount you need to add weekly to keep your numbers at optimum.
I'm getting killed out here! Call in the backup!
OK, that makes sense. I know that even after lowering the dose PH can still rise so I'm trying to get a handle on testing frequency and suggested dosage on a 106 gallon system
Oh... I understand now. I thought you were attempting to raise/control pH with Kalkwasser. Sorry. Yea. Dosing kalk via the stirrer is a good way to address alk and calcium needs in low demand systems. Badspstank has it right. Just test and adjust.
Depends on the usual consumption of alk in the system. Somewhere around 1/2 gallon per day of kalk might be a good starting point, if you test alk daily and adjust as needed. 1/2 gallon of saturated kalk in 105 gallons would be about 0.5 dKH.
