Purple Up (1 Viewer)

[BostonJosh]

Has anyone used this product and what are your thoughts for use in a reef tank?

 

[Guest]

I have a bottle if you wanna try it for yourself.

 

[Guest]

I tied that bottle but no luck I started adding kalk and like magic the coraline grew

 

[Reefbitten]

So far it has worked for me but learned the hard way you have to have coraline for it to work...

 

[cstewart79]

Essenitally purple up is an all in one reef supplement that adds...

calcium'
strontium
magnesium
iodine
carbonates

having these items in a good concentration encourages the growth of coraline

 

[Raymond]

i heard purple up kills yellow tangs

 

[Guest]

.....also makes baby Jesus cry.

 

[decimal]

hahaha roflmao

 

[tas5tas]

The only think I noticed when I used it was that it lowered alkalinity. Just be careful and monitor your parameters. I have found that coraline grows great with an alk of around 8-9dkh and with tons of water movement. I just went barebottom a month ago and my entire bottom is already encrusted in coraline. Heck....it's even encrusted all 4 walls of my refugium, so lighting doesn't matter.

 

[Guest]

At the risk of sounding stupid...... What the heck is kalk? Now remember I am a newbie.

 

[Guest]

Kalkwasser

 

[Guest]

Do you buy that at the grocery store? I have never seen it before.

 

[Guest]

I got mine at Kroger's for like $3

 

[Guest]

well youi can spend 7 bucks for a 1/8 of what you can get when yoiu buy mrs wages. find it at krogers.

It is a fairly simple process , add a t spoon or two to a goallon of water shake and let sit over night, ready to use.

now getting it into the tank is another topic. anyone else care to explain?

 

[tas5tas]

I have a 3 gallon container that I continuously drip kalk from for my topoff. I mix in 6 teaspoons of Mrs. Wages with 3 gallons of RO/DI and drip at my evaporation rate which is 1 drip every 1.5 seconds. I am able to hold my calcium and alkalinity levels rock solid by doing this. My container is made from a used container of Utz Cheeze Balls from Sams. I then used a threaded 1/2" to 1/4" quick connect fitting to feed the 1/4" rigid tubing. The quick connect is held on the backside with a threaded 1/2" cpvc adapter. I control the flow with an airline valve on the end of the 1/4" rigid tubing. Total cost is about $7. $4 for the cheese balls, $2 for the quick connect, $.65 for the cpvc adapter.

 

[Guest]

I stopped by home depot and picked up a quick connect and a coupling it was less than 4 dollars. came home cut the top off of an empty milk jug cut a hole near the bottom and screwed in the quick connect, tied a knot in the tubing at a drip rate of 1 drip every 4 seconds and wow, much easier than what I was using before.

 

[txmedic1]

i thought you wanted to drip kalk from an AIR-TIGHT container ?!?!?!

 

[tas5tas]

You do want an air tight container....otherwise you will end up with a precipitate crust. Just get a different type of container with a lid and you'll be ok.

 

[kisha]

This may be a silly question but I still consider myself a beginner at this stuff. If you use purple up, do you use it when adding water back to the tank and can it be used with Kalk?

 

[kisha]

Does any one have a picture of the setup used for topoff? (never seen it before and would like to set one up.) Thanks

Kish-