Coloring up Corals - Keeping Healthy Corals!

[@sunnygoold9449]

Put Chris ACI in the title for 3x the views

[@mdowney14]

I keep suggesting this. These streams are awesome but they need to include the name of the guest in the title.

[@nim6us]

Loved the interview and I love Chris’ enthusiasm but just so much conflicting info. He’ll state one thing as definitive, and 15min later go back on it. No doubt the guy is a coral whisperer but communicating that experience is another talent all together. Thanks for the great questions Dev! 👍

[@rrrreefer9721]

You said exactly what I was thinking. I kept saying, but you just said.... lol

[@aciaquaculture]

@nim6us I’ll have to watch the video in full and figure out what was said that was conflicting or confusing. I thought I did a good job. Appreciate the feedback. I’ll work on it👍

[@rrrreefer9721]

@@aciaquaculture hey you did a great job. We're being nitpicky lol

[@alexnanna1]

​@@aciaquaculture HI ill be starting my new 450 gallon sps dominated reef and I would love to try this method. I have been in the hobby for 15 years and have used 2 part carx reactor and now kalkwasser and love it. Where can I learn more on this?

[@jmdelira87]

Some thoughts being shared as concrete statements are what get me. Love most of what he says but newcomers gotta be really careful with Chris. He can easily make them believe things that aren’t true.

[@katchupoy01]

I can listen to Chris the whole day without getting tired. Wealth of knowledge

[@camillitime]

I love learning from your streams! Thanks for all the great content Devin!

[@joshua_w]

Brilliant interview Dev! Great to hear Chris and learn what is happening on the leading edge. Nailed it Thanks

[@ReefDudes]

Thanks Joshua!

[@JoshOsReef]

Great video guys. Just to clarify, 0.1 on the pH is only 1x less potent than the next reading. A pH of 11 is 10x less potent than a pH of 12

[@billysprout2374]

every single question dev asked was the perfect question to help me understand this guest more deeply. what an amazing video

[@ReefDudes]

Love hearing it helps!

[@EricAllee]

What a awesome video I'm going to watch this a few times. Chris thank you for sharing all your knowledge!!!

[@aciaquaculture]

Appreciate that, Tks

[@MurrayMotocross1]

Yall really wearing them big headphones haha. I'm about to try this method. I wish he would have went more into detail about doing this in smaller systems. And by smaller I mean less than 5000 gallons haha. 15 gallons of top off a day? My god man. I enjoyed this stram dev thanks man.

[@TheCrazyEyes85]

That's interesting, because The coral corral is the only place I've heard running kalk only at night, and after Chris mentioned that store it all makes sense now.

[@josephgabris9741]

I keep rewatching this and taking notes. My pH hits 8.0 at its highest and I really vibe with what was discussed

[@richardjordan284]

I learn something different everytime I listen to Chris , great show cheers guys 👍

[@ReefDudes]

Me too! Need to lure him on more often ;)

[@stephenmcgauley]

I can definitely attest to higher ph equaling happier corals in my system. Using kalk has been amazing, the entire tank looks better when dosing vs when not. Tanks sits right around 8.3. I might try this method.

[@ReefDudes]

I’m trying a bit of a hybrid method tonight with dosing my kalk stirrer at double duty on opposite to my light schedule. Curious to see how it goes over the next few days

[@stephenmcgauley]

@@ReefDudes I am using kalk slurry in a bucket with a jebao and a dos lol. And I also want to try dosing opposite lights as what he said makes perfect sense.

[@Ellery-USA]

Chris definitely has some awesome real life experiences and willing to perform experiments we wished we had resources to perform at home. I have also started raising my pH and is seeing the ALK rise as well but will dial back the CaRx.

[@drummerguydw]

I started using kalk since discovering the ATI kalk method, my corals have done much better and I have Acropora doing great despite alk swings, I already have encrusting and growth in the first week in my qt

[@a.fab.antonfabrication2717]

First time watching you and I clicked because of Chris. This was a great live stream. I’ll be back. 🌱🌿🌴

[@Brmmsilva]

Was this really 2 hours? I'm assuming so, because of youtube timing on the video. I can't get tired of listening to Chris. Thanks for this amazing conversation.

[@ReefDudes]

Fly's by when your having fun! I could talk with Chris for endless hours about reefing!

[@roypangallo3620]

We need to see Chris more! Tones of knowledge … great video boys please do them regularly..

[@barelyreefer]

Awesome video!

[@lucamartino3007]

This is fire!

[@CartersToyBox357]

I really enjoyed that video, I get a lot of aci frags at my local store. Never had one die yet n there affordable

[@doghousereefer]

I love aquaholics and Captiv8, great products and just found out very local to me! This was a great watch

[@JCrowe86]

Still a little confused on his method. Is it written out anywhere where I can read it?

[@mdowney14]

How do you pull liquid out of an airtight, sealed container without the container collapsing? Something has to replace the volume of the liquid that your dosing pump is pulling out.

[@jestronixhanderson9898]

I run my prop system outside, 1.2m x 1m and .3m high. It has a large surface area, with no Kalk it would bottom at 8. and hit 8.2 . . Now dosing 24/7 its 8.2 to 8.3. Man did things change, sps exploded. i still run two part with a khg to keep it stable. I now use 80% less for two part. Id say 80% cheaper too. My sps wild colonies have fused to the bottom of the tank in less than a month, its nuts. After 15 years of reefing, never seen anything like it. Natural sunlight also helps.

[@jluusaltwateraquarium8320]

Thanks for sharing fantastic video for us .....

[@techhr7453]

nice info and food for thought in this one.

[@ramesis]

How do we raise pH in a new tank that has very little alk uptake? Also, running at that high levels of Alk how does one match it to the levels of water chamge water?

[@lisathewhitewolf]

When I was a new reefer, my IO Reef Crystals salt used to mix up at pH 7.6. When I think about it, though, maybe I just didn't let it mix long enough?

[@LukeGreen_]

I may have missed this but why would you use a kalkstirrer ? What difference is it just being in a bucket ?

[@ReefDudes]

Less maintenance, smaller space. as you feed rodi though it it tunrs it into fully saturated kalk.

[@aaronh1785]

Adding a lot of calcium with all of that kalk, I’m assuming it will catch up and cause other problems. I pinpoint my ph with a solenoid connected to apex. Carbon scrubbing media canister connected to protein skimmer. Have always been told not to pinpoint ph with kalk. Great video though

[@stotskyscoralbox3147]

I wonder what the ph is on a fully saturated potassium hydroxide solution?

[@stxe34]

i hate "im right you are wrong people"! you need to get chris on!

[@CLOWNFISH69]

I’m close to reef masters 👍

[@ArrickthaRed]

I did not see the stream but watched after. I am really interested in this kalk dosing process for my new 225 gallon build. I need to get in contact with Chris somehow but I'm just a guy. To me this system sounds much safer and less complicated than dosing the slurry everyone is talking about. I want to try this but need to know potential land mines.

[@ReefDudes]

I would agree with you on that one. I’m experimenting with something in the middle of still using my kalk stirrer but dosing my full normal daily volume in 12h oposite to lights out. Curious to see how that goes in a few days

[@Aleksander2526]

@@ReefDudes what is the difference between using a kalk stirrer and a container? I don’t understand

[@reefbeta3068]

You know, if you supplement most of your alkalinity with kalkwasser, the calcium level will gradually raise, because coral skeleton is not pure calcium carbonate. Will be interested to hear what Chris say about elevated calcium in a couple years when his system finally catch it up lol.

[@Kenny_Edmonton]

This does not work for me, if I put double in and tell apex to turn off if > then 8.29 and set the doser for 24 hrs, my PH does not elevate above that 8.29 during the day even with the lights on, so what ends up happening as I dose all night and all day guess what happens to my return chamber in my AIO I’m trying to perfect it somehow to get it to work.

[@haketheflake2688]

10/10 video

[@Fluke-h6z]

Wait I always thought high nutrients high light because corals have nutrients to feed on? And low nutrients low light since there is not a lot of nutrients for them to feed on? But Chris say low nutrients high light , and high nutrients low light ?

[@one-armed-reefer5184]

great vid guy think Chris is amazing such enthusiasm and love for his work shore through so much. silly question I'm going to run same set up for kalk but onshore how to program my apex still new to the apex can you share how to do this many thats lee

[@aciaquaculture]

Head over to our website and send a message. Happy to help

[@andrewsdrmike]

My only question is by chasing a high ph with saturated Kalk does the Alk and Ca raise too high…?

[@ReefDudes]

In my experience no. I’m Currently dosing alk on top of it

[@CartersToyBox357]

Wen I started his method mine went to 15 dkh I was scared but the corals looked great still. It went down after a few weeks. Now the corals grow so fast the alkalinity is always low real low

[@NerdistAquarist]

Interesting that Chris said if you have higher nutrients you should have lower intensity lights. I've always heard the complete opposite including guys like Dana Riddle and Mike Paletta. Maybe he misspoke?

[@KelsiGuidry]

This is what I came into the comments looking for an answer to.

[@beteck007]

I'm curious on how much of a drop and alk swing you end up with since you say not to dose during the day only after lights out.

[@bgrimlan]

So...correct me if I am wrong, If we do this by doser with Chris method, we would need a double head doser. One head for filling up the reservoir during the day and another head for dosing at night. And somehow have a mixing pumping there for mixing the kalk up for little bit. That way it's stays saturated during dosing, not being diluted by a feed pump during night time. Am I understanding his method correctly?

[@AquaticOasis]

So... what exactly is the process? I watched like 3 times and still didn't grasp the exact steps.

[@svt_guido]

🔥

[@NickM92]

So would you guys recommend using kalkwasser over sodium hydroxide?

[@Will40th]

Every one runs low nutrient I use too color and grow any acropora . But now for some reason I had to increase my nutrients or my acropora will bleach or get stn . Who has this issue or know why

[@zauzakeking]

Sounds like you'll have to still dose alk and calcium once you reach your evaporation limit?

[@benassileika4668]

I tried dosing at night kalkwasser, but at the end of the day, alkalinity drops quait low, should I dose kh buffer at day time?

[@ReefDudes]

If alk is dropping to low then yes I would. Dose alk in day and kalk at night

[@duffleaver6108]

The more you control your evaporation the less you would have to dose the kalk solution.? How does that factor in controlling the ph?

[@greenmachine4148]

Lots of information but you might consider explain what kalc washer actually is for those new to the hobby

[@jhonwhick5586]

Hi Dev, great live stream! have a few question? So does the kalk container need to be air tight ? can you have a pump mixing the solution at all time? how many ml do you dose per gallon evaporated ?, thank you!

[@a-listdrains2599]

Does he have a channel?

[@aciaquaculture]

Have lots of videos linked on our website

[@wudz-_-3251]

so what would be the best kalkwasser to use seeing as he recommends a high quality

[@duffleaver6108]

reef blueprint is what he uses

[@ReefDork]

Audio sounds great on this! Is that an SM7B I spy...?

[@ReefDudes]

Sure is! Picked it up off FB market a few days ago. Still needs a bit more tweaking but slowly getting there. :)

[@danielvalderrama6809]

is BRS Kalk high purity?

[@miltonenglish1679]

How often should I be removing n cleaning out the kale stirr and refilling it with fresh kale?

[@KelsiGuidry]

No kalk stirrer.

[@fansolate]

But why are we worry about ph not kh? Wasn’t kh Fluctuate more often than ph?

[@mignottfamilyja9842]

@reefdudes is there a way to still use 2part with the kalk, to achieve stable ph? 2-3 gallons per day is just too much

[@stephenmcgauley]

Check out Telegram on KZbin and kalk slurry dosing. He has a great method if you have high consumption. It works cus I do it on my tank.

[@richardbattle5053]

I love this info, but I have a question. He mentioned using kawlk at night time, not during the day. So would that differ for people like myself since my lights are on in my tank from 8pm-6am..?

[@ericn9175]

Pretty sure he means “night time” is whenever your display lights are out.

[@Slick_Reefing]

Correct, when I started this method I targeted when my peak Ph dip occurs during my dark photoperiod and dose kalk around 30 minutes before that valley manifests to compensate the ionic resistance. For me it is consistently 3~3.5hrs after lights out. that is when I correct the chemistry with the buffer.

[@retroreefs7986]

So we’re not topping off all day and replacing it all throughout the evening?

[@aciaquaculture]

Yes

[@danielmcleod5432]

How much would salinity swing, and does that matter? I know in ACI’s system with the water volume it might not be that much of a concern, but how about in a 100 gallon system?

[@SirShmyras_Reef]

@@aciaquaculture I was wondering the same. Just programmed my apex tonight to try this out. If I have done math correctly I will expect a 0.5-1.0 ppt swing in salinity daily in 65 gal tank? Would you be concerned with that degree of daily salinity swing? FWIW, my daily alk uptake is less than my daily evap rate. Because I dosing saturated Kalk, I've effectively programmed my ATO to kick on for 1 hr a day, a little bit after I expect the Kalk doser to turn off, in order to keep bridge the gap between demand for fully saturated kalk and my daily evap rate. Does that sound reasonable?

[@aciaquaculture]

@@danielmcleod5432 take it slow and steady for sure. Use a conservative evaporation amount until you dial it in. A small increase in your low PH number day to day will work until you are comfortable with the method.

[@quinn8823]

With respect to Chris because he seems like a nice guy. His explanations are nonsensical chemistry babbling. Instead of trying to explain it, better and more convincing if he just say what he does and show us pics of his “phenomenal” results before and after. Either that or have a chemist go over his theories so that it at least makes sense. All the fast talking makes him seem like a genius to people who don’t know, but to those who have basic chemistry knowledge, well, unfortunately he looks like the opposite

[@aaronjackson345]

Is it 6g to 1 gallon ?

[@ReefDudes]

Yep! 6 grams to 1 gallon of RODI if dosing directly

[@mcphersong5528]

Kack wakers

[@paulknapp2223]

I thought it was high nutrients more par and vice versa ....

[@sunoefamily]

also curious about this

[@rolisreefranch]

Kalk: the secret sauce

[@mosleyaquatics6487]

This guy has some great points and great info about kalk. But the way he wants to avoid talking about numbers seems he either truly know (unlikely) or he is a bit arrogant. Plain and simple saying that numbers don’t matter and people worry to much about them is a problem it’s self. If I bring home a coral that is a very low light coral but I didn’t know it. Knowing what par levels are in different areas of the tank is the only way to fix the problem. If it’s unhappy and I don’t know what the fix is because I don’t “worry about numbers” is a fools errand

[@aciaquaculture]

@mosleyaquatics Not arrogant by any means. Learn something new everyday. I’m referring to the spike in the alk numbers when we first started this method of dosing at night to achieve a stable PH. If you worry too much about certain numbers while dialing in PH using this method, you’ll talk yourself out of it. It will all balance out in time. Thats what I was trying to get across. But I do understand where your coming from.

[@mosleyaquatics6487]

@@aciaquaculture I couldn’t agree more about people stressing to much about numbers. But having a understanding of them is absolutely necessary. For example if someone is under the impression they are doing it correctly but they aren’t things could get out of control easily

[@mikemcnamee6030]

@26:00 CO2 isn’t necessarily a “little devil”. CO2 is plant and coral food. Just like trees absorb co2 from the atmosphere, the ocean absorbs it to create carbonic acid (H2CO3). That can disassociate into bicarbonate(HCO3) and further into carbonate(CO3) depending on the concentration of free Hydrogen to hydroxide ions, the power of hydrogen or “pH”. Every bit of carbonate alkalinity in the ocean came from atmospheric CO2. I’ve been experimenting with sodium hydroxide for 16 months. If you’re dosing hydroxide as your only “alk” additive with ambient co2 at 1600ppm you may do just fine. Go on vacation and let co2 drop to 410ppm… pH is gonna go nuts, alkalinity stability will be impossible to maintain and corals will be PISSED. CO2 is generally detrimental but it’s still an essential part of the equation.

[@bluereef9530]

So the reason chris is keeping a higher Alk. Is to uptake of Co2 to form bicarbonate ions. This means it possible now to alter ocean chemistry on climate change. Why he didn't say it in those words except just saying his corals look good at 11.5 ..interesting....

[@quadlawnmowerman]

none of the arguments about the salt mixing and settling stands up in reality, nor does the so called solution to the non-existent problems and doesn't address the main issue he was on about with mixing. It is clearly the rantings of someone who has had little to do with making salts, just a vendor pushing their new product like it was a miracle because they got a good deal with a third party .... "Guarantee for a fact", what a joke........

[@TheTrevor40]

Tells us not to chase numbers and then spends two hours encouraging us to chase a pH number. 🙃

[@mcphersong5528]

It’s like a flower if you can’t see the flower is blooming your not a reefer!!!!