Wicked, If you tank turns cloudy you're missing some of the good. All thatshould be dosed is clear solution.IMO. The precipitate is phosphate, heavymetals and a bunch of other crap. I am glad you haven’t nuked your tank, but akalk OD can and does happen all the time. I know some people won’t agree withthis and don’t agree with me on Ich. OD kalk can kill a tank. Perhaps you knowmore about his tank than I do Wicked, and perhaps its 500 gallons, so a gallonof limewater won’t hurt it. But for anyone else reading that, it could easilykill everything in the tank. Please, please do your own research, find whatworks for you and be careful. You could kill your tank. I wouldn’t dose withoutfinding what your alk consumption is first. Why are you even dosing? Without testing, you dont know.
“Delivering a small amount of solid lime slurried (dispersed) in a smallamount of water. Adding one level teaspoon of solid lime (Ca(OH)2) slurried ina cup of water to 40 gallons of aquarium water all at once raises the pH by 0.6 to 0.7 pH units.That is clearly too much. Adding a smaller portion all at once can, however, beacceptable. Adding, for example, 1/4 teaspoon to 40 gallons will raise the pHby only 0.1 to 0.2 pH units. Unless the pH is high (>8.4) before theaddition, that amount is likely acceptable. The other concern with all at oncedosing is that the local pH in the area of the addition will rise considerablyhigher than the values above. Moreover, dosing a slurry raises the addedconcern that the solids must dissolve before encountering organisms that maytake them up and be harmed. So it is best to dose such materials to a sump, andwatch that they completely dissolve before reaching the main aquarium or arefugium. In many aquaria, such restrictions make all–at-once dosing of a slurryprohibitively risky to living organisms.”
“Delivering a small amount of solid lime slurried (dispersed) in a smallamount of water. Adding one level teaspoon of solid lime (Ca(OH)2) slurried ina cup of water to 40 gallons of aquarium water all at once raises the pH by 0.6 to 0.7 pH units.That is clearly too much. Adding a smaller portion all at once can, however, beacceptable. Adding, for example, 1/4 teaspoon to 40 gallons will raise the pHby only 0.1 to 0.2 pH units. Unless the pH is high (>8.4) before theaddition, that amount is likely acceptable. The other concern with all at oncedosing is that the local pH in the area of the addition will rise considerablyhigher than the values above. Moreover, dosing a slurry raises the addedconcern that the solids must dissolve before encountering organisms that maytake them up and be harmed. So it is best to dose such materials to a sump, andwatch that they completely dissolve before reaching the main aquarium or arefugium. In many aquaria, such restrictions make all–at-once dosing of a slurryprohibitively risky to living organisms.”
