Dripping Kalk

Laura and Jim will be hosting the May meeting this Saturday the 12th and it will be the usual of food, drinks, raffle and fun.
 
Doors will be open at 6:00 pm for social talk and the meeting will start at 7:00.  Parking gets a little tight and the city says you can't park on 4th but there is a parking lot a block away.   Meeting is usually held in the backyard so feel free to bring your favorite lawn chair, weather permitting of course.

If you need address/directions, contact a club member.

Best if you park at Mini Mall (where the spaghetti establishment use to be)
 
You will get to see his new frag tank set up in the making.
 
Hope to see you there!

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[Mike@Work]

When mixing up Kalk, I use a 1 liter bottle and put about a tsp of Kalk in and mix in RO/DI water and mix and let it sit for about 2 days.  After I drip it into the tank I usually have a bit of kalk sludge at the bottom of the bottle.  Now I have usually been leaving it in there and mixing a new batch.  But eventually I will dump it out.

So my question/s is:
1. should I dump the excess Kalk out each time
2. should I not add anymore kalk to the mix and just add water since there is already an amount in the bottle.
3. should I not even worry about it and just continue to dose as I have been.

Thanks

[Yellotang]

What I would do is to just add fresh RO/DI water to it a 3 more times and shake and let it settle out. Then drip it. After three refills of plain RO/DI, I would dump out the rest and restart over again.

BTW. 1tsp of calcium hydroxide (Kalkwasser powder) will cause 1 gallon of RO/DI water to become supersaturated of Calcium. This is then usually dripped into the tank.

So what you are doing is using 4 liters or 1 gallon per tsp, if you do it the way I suggested.

[Mike@Work]

ah ok..  I thought it was 1 TBLspoon for a gallon.  My bad..  I will try that though..

Thanks

[Yellotang]

cool, hope it works.