Bwaaha, what are you talking about? The barkmulch helps give it that "peaty" quality and provides fiber for your corals.
Hagen? pfft. you should know better
As for my own issues (of which there are many but we'll address the alk problem for now
) theres a chunk of foam in the bottom of the reactor that stops the finer media from flowing through and destroying the pump, I'm going to take that out and replace it with a larger mesh to try to get more flow through the reactor since this media is supposedly designed for a higher flow reactor. Then I'll dial down the drip rate and give the CO2 more time with the media. Hopefully that gets the job done. It sounds good anyways.