The Balling Method

The Balling method was created by Hans-Werner Balling and published in magazines in German in 1994.

This method was developed to overcome some difficulties in stabilizing and maintaining levels of calcium, carbonates, magnesium, amino acids and trace elements in reef aquariums.

With the presentation of their work, Balling has become a renowned name in the four corners of the world and  the reef aquariums lived a tremendous development.

One of the minor virtues of the method was to simplify the setup of reef aquariums and the release of his followers  of a paraphernalia of equipments, such as calcium reactor, CO2 tank, gearbox, solenoid, pH probe, pH meter, pH controller, feeder pump, etc... With this method, the hobbyist began to require only three containers for storing different solutions and respective metering pumps!

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