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Old 03/25/2005, 07:47 PM
Randy Holmes-Farley Randy Holmes-Farley is offline
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he he he a 50 lb bag of kalk sounds too good to be true

That's what I use. A 50 pound bag of food grade calcium oxide.

Details on purity of calcium hydroxide and calcium oxide are in this article:

What Your Grandmother Never Told You About Lime
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rhf/index.htm
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