Kent's Liquid Reactor
 

I recently picked up a bottle of Liquid Reactor by Kent Marine.
All I can say is this stuff is liquid magic. For almost 5yrs I have been dripping kalkwasser and now I no longer need to. Not only does it raise my levels of Ca back up to a healthy 450ppm it has also brought my Alk levels back up too! My tank is only 27gl so adding a real reactor seems almost overkill, so until I upgrade the tank I will be sticking to LR.

Best buy in a long time :biggrin:

Yup. Love that Liquid Reactor as well. Great for our smaller reef tanks & my corals have been doing much better now that I dose with this & diluted Lugol's Solution instead of what I used to use (Kent's Liq. Calcium & Iodine solutions).

Anthony

Was using it for a long time, built my reactor, now I'm going to get into reefing again I'll be buying more. I used to suppliment it with SeaChem stuff, calcium gluconate and it was great for coraline algae but I was warned not to use to much for to long.

watch out for some of the liquid reactors as they use chemicals to raise Alk that are not usable by the corals.

Does it say which ingredients it is using?

Steve

RO/DI water, chloride-free calcium, magnesium, and strontium salts from natural sources.
This product will raise the concentrations of calcium, magnesium, strontium, and carbonates (alkalinity) in the system, and is chloride, phosphate, nitrate, and gluconate free!

From the Kent site.

Doug

ya I wish they had to list the ingreadents, the problem is a lot of these places are using borite as a componant. it raises Alk great but it is not usable by corals. so this is why when using some of thoes types of additives the Alk stays up for a while and you don't have to use as much. I use plain old baking soda to maintain my Alk (untill I get my new Ca reactor done) as baking soda is useable by the corals.

Steve

Steve, leave it to me I'll find out for you asap.

Doug

Curious about this stuff too, but couldn't remember where I read a couple of negative comments in an RC thread or two. Randy H-F has some concerns but doesn't seem to give it the thumbs-up OR down...

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...y2002/chem.htm

He seems to question the usefulness of slurries in general. :confused: But here you guys have logged two stellar reports, so... :biggrin:

I grew coraline like crazy after i started useing the liquid reactor,i think it is great stuff!

Anyone know who carries it in Calgary?, I'm getting ahead of myself with acros, and won't have a reactor for a bit