Pickling Lime

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https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/mrs-wages-pickling-lime.160538/

 

[happyhourhero]

I used it for about a year until my evaporation could not keep up with my demand for Cal and alk. I switched to 2 part.

 

[jason2459]

Cheap and works great!

Yep, and I usually get what ever is the cheapest at the time. It usually ends up being Mrs. Wages or BRS. My last one though was ESV's.

I used it for about a year until my evaporation could not keep up with my demand for Cal and alk. I switched to 2 part.

You could do both.

 

[happyhourhero]

You could do both.

Yeah but I was the kind of reefer who had a ghetto milk jug with airline tubing running out of them with a knot tied to control the drip. Is much easier to just dump in a bit of alk and a bit of cal once a day.

 

[wranodj]

2 teaspoons per gallon (to/do) of Mrs Wages Pickling Lime per gallon of top off water in ATO. Mix and let settle overnight and pour off supernatant into ATO.

 

[jason2459]

What I do is
1. Turn off dosing pump
2. Fill tote with water
3. Add some lime
4. Stir with pvc pipe for more then 1 second and less then 60 seconds
5. Snap tote top back on
6. Wait a few hours and turn back on dosing pump

Tube for pulling the limewater is a couple inches off the bottom and won't pull the slurry that settles out. My Apex has a feed timer I have set that turns off the dosing pump for a few hours and turns it back on so I don't have to remember to do the part.

I should clean that slurry out periodically like once a year would be good.

 

[lou dog420]

I use it in a home made dripper. 2 teaspoons per gallon, along with about 30 ml of vinegar.

 

[photiczoner]

Does anyone use pickling lime in their reef tanks? Any issues with using it?

my 10 year old reef does fine with Mrs. Wages Pickling Lime. My ATO is maybe a 7-8 gallon reservoir, lasts about a week before it needs to be refilled with RODI, and I put 4-6 tablespoons of pickling lime in most of the time when I refill the ATO. My ATO drips overnight when the pH is lower anyway.

I does leave a powdery residual in the bottom of my ATO reservoir over time, so I just rinse out my reservoir container every couple months.

Good luck!