question about brain corals and torchs

[spongebob lover]

i was looking on line at some brain corals and some torchs.
i really like these corals and so before i start bothering my bank (my husband ) i was wondering, do i really need a calcium reactor in order to keep them? or would they still be ok without the calcium reactor?

 

[Anthony Calfo]

a Ca reactor is convenient and reliable... but not necessary. Many such LPS as you have named calcify so slowly that manual additions of calcium hydroxide and water changes aeone will be fine. No worries

 

[Kensn]

Well Gabriela, you will want to keep your calcium up to the desired levels. I don't think that a brain coral and a torch will make a big change in calcium usage. You may have to increase the way you keep your calcium up now, or start to drip Kalk or maybe use a 2 part additive. I don't think the addition of a calcium reactor right now is needed, but maybe as you get more calcium dependant inhabitants and you get tired of dripping kakl, or the 2 part get expensive, then a reactor might be the ticket.

Hope this helps, and I hope others chime in.

Ken

 

[spongebob lover]

Thank you Anthony and Ken
about the manual additions of calcium hydroxide, i would like to know which bran do you think would be good for them?

 

[Kensn]

I belive all the Kalkwasser stuff is pretty much the same. I have heard you can get a certain "Pickeling Lime" at some grocery stores, but can't remember the name of it this sec. I did read that it may be a little coarser, and not dissolve as fast as some of the ones packaged for aquarium trade. Try to order online for best price.

ken

 

[Anthony Calfo]

there is a wide range of purity, but if you only dose it as kalkwasser (decanting milky water off the settled solids) then you will be Ok to use cheap lime. CaOH is self-purifying in many ways (contaminents precip out).

But I prefer to use a faster, cleaner (no clogging drips, etc) habit of kalk slurries (do a keyword search for this). As such... I need to use a better quality of hydroxide for allowing the solids into the aquarium.

My fav brand is Seachem FWIW

 

[FNPinMO]

Mrs. Wages is the name of the lime. I just bought about 20 containers of it at Wal-Mart. It was only $1.79. Dissolves ok. Ball used to make pickling lime also, but I have heard they quit making it.

 

[spongebob lover]

WWEEELLCOME FNPinMO !!
Thank you very much dood i'll try looking for it at the store

 

[plack]

Don't forget a calcium test kit as adding to much could dangerously screw things up. water changes alone will probably do !

 

[spongebob lover]

well i tried looking for it at the store, but i couldn't find it.
i'll keep looking for it , but it seems like my torch is doing good after all.
i was really worried that he wasn't gonna be fine in the tank, but so far so good.