Vingar reactor

[saveafish]

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Now, since I have seen a lot of nitare reactors and dosing vingar. Whay not combine both. Using vingar and calcium media. This would add calcium while dosing vingar at the same time. Would this concept even be worth trying?

In theory the vingar would desolve the calc, reduce the nitrates and dose both into the tank.

Any thoughts on this theory

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

You could try to do that, but one problem is that you wouldn't be able to control vinegar and calcium/alkalinity additions separately.

It also won't supply much since the vinegar doses are not that high in relation to alkalinity needs in many tanks. It will be less than simply adding lime into vinegar directly and dosing the saturated solution, which is what I did for a while.

I dose 100 mL of vinegar into my reef tank. If all of that dissolved calcium carbonate, you might get at most 166 milliequivalents of alkalinity. In my water volume that would add about 0.5 dKH per day. The limewater I add for top off brings in a few times that.