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12/29/2010, 08:26 PM
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Misanthrope
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Plainville, CT
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Pouring top off water into overflow
My overflow leads to a drip tray which then drains into my fuge. I'm beginning to suspect that I may be killing off my pods in the fuge with the daily influx of fresh water. Is this a possibility, or am I being paranoid? How might I add top off water instead in such a way that I don't disturb the sandbed and it doesn't take 30 minutes to pour a gallon of RO/DI into my tank...? :-)
I tried pouring directly into the return section of my sump but that kicks up too much detritus from the sump floor.
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12/29/2010, 09:27 PM
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I thought that pods were fairly tough to wipe out with fresh water. My top-off water goes directly into my overflow, but it goes in from my ato not as a large influx of water.
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12/29/2010, 09:32 PM
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mines been going into the overflow for years and i have not noticed any pod decrease... i dont think that is your problem. what fish do you have? maybe one of those are snacking on them
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12/29/2010, 09:43 PM
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At the risk of self promotion, make a 1 gallon kalk dripper and add kalk while topping off. No osmotic shock and you're maintaining Ca and Alk at the same time.
A Simple DIY Kalk Dripper Been there, done that, wrote the article ......... 
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12/29/2010, 09:53 PM
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How long has the fuge been set up? What's in it? Do you have some chaeto for them to live in? What's the flow rate through the sump? |
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12/30/2010, 12:07 PM
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Misanthrope
Join Date: May 2010
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OK forgive the n00b question but if I just drip kalk constantly, what's to keep the calcium /alk from just rising all the time? Is the calcium consumed somehow? Is it skimmed out? Won't it eventually start a snowstorm of precipitation in my tank?
What about Mag?
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12/30/2010, 01:26 PM
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What Your Grandmother Never
Told You About Lime All your questions will be answered ................
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