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So what's the deal with Chris then? He hammers the idea that alkalinity doesn't matter? Also not to reply to an email, is their a truth he doesn't want to entertain? I may have needed to sit back and re-think alot before giving you the idea of me replying as I did. Sorry about that.
That's the problem with the internet and others, myself included. I litterly take what I research or been told how to this, and how to that and roll with it.
So about the few different methods of just boosting pH with kalk. The online store I deal with gave me some advice that you can dose kalk and just get a pH lift or dose for cal/alk increase. I'm not a chemist and I'm dabbling in amounts of powder to use. I reached out to Hans from TM and said I like kalk but the idea of not having the traces bothers me as I've been a fan of AFR for a year now. I was told to see how much AFR it takes to go from 7 to 8 dkh and that's your dose when doing kalk. I know he's a busy guy and didn't pursue any more details.
Now with that aside, again I didn't intend to disrespect you whatsoever. I know ppl have opinions and yes some can be a bit misunderstood.
So this brings me to a touchy question as I know your feelings about the product Boost pH? Couldn't Brad get away with it as Brightwell makes the claim it doesn't raise alk? I know you were on the warpath some time ago with a few companies but I never seen what became of it.
It's also my nature to challenge ppl when I don't see the answer clearly in front of me
While I do not follow everything he says by any means, and can only speculate here, his kalkwasser advice seems pertinent and appropriate to the scenarios he experiences in his coral systems (high alk demand (even needing other alk additions than the kalkwasser ) and perhaps normal indoor CO2 as a commercial coral farm might have as opposed to a home.
How that advice translates to very different systems with very high indoor CO2 and very low alk demand is where I believe it breaks down.
Brightwell has retracted (or Jack said they would retract) the no alk claim when presented with data that they reproduced themselves.