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Two Little FIshes C-Balance PDF Print E-mail
Maintaining Calcium and Alk in a reef tank can be a real chore.  Especialy for those of us who don't have the money to spend on calcium, and kalk reactors.  I had been personaly dosing kalk to my tank.  I evaporate probaly about 800ml of water per day.  With the addition of sps however a saturated kalk solution was not enough.  I'm not wanting to experiment with vinegar because in all honestly it scares me. It sounds dangerous, and like an accident waiting to happen. To supplement my kalk, I was at first using Tropic marin's bio calcium.  1.5 scoops daily, with a pinch of kent super buffer weekly.  This was a pretty annoying ritual, because it was hard to maintain the ratio of cal/alk that I wanted.  Also the Bio-calcium I had to add very slowly or else it made a huge mess in my tank.

I had heard great things about the TLF C-balance.  I went out and bought a set.  It comes with part's A/B in one box.  I am now just about finished my bottles.  It has been an excellent way to maintain the ratios in my tank.  As a supplement to my kalk I've found that I have to dose about 1 capful of each part daily.  This past week I tried 1/2 a capfull but unfortunately my levels dropped a bit.  Both parts dilute quickly when added to the tank.  I was having some excellent growth, the most I've ever seen in my tank up till the blackout occured.  Since than my sps have been on a recovery and readjustment period as the blackout threw off a lot of my rituals, especially since I had guests over at the time.

I would rate the product very easy to use, and provides excellent results.  I may have to use it for a few years until I can save up for a calcium reactor.  Unfortunately the only downside I've noticed with the product is it gets fairly expensive to use.  Perhaps if it was a little more concentrated it would help on cost.  I've found many calcium products on the reef market too diluted.  1 scoop/capful raising calcium by 15ppm/20gal of water is too weak IMO.  If I moved to a larger tank this would be totaly unreasonable.

I would recommend this product to anyone running a nano, or as a stopover gap on a larger tank before you add that calcium reactor.

 
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