Coral Calcium Re: Water Kefir Available - super growth recipe, easy

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Mariner,

Regarding obtaining Coral and Coral Calcium:

I've found that you can get " Coral Calcium " at any Brewing Supply or Beer Making

specialty

store; it's sold properly as Calcium Chloride, which lowers the pH (hardens the

water) and

gives the mineral content. It's incredibly cheap too. You can buy 4 oz little

packets, they

will look like small beads.

Be careful in your usage, as each TEASPOON is sufficient enough to harden 5

gallons of

water, so you'll just need a teeny weeny pinch (I put in about five beads) will

do for a

typical Water Kefir batch. My grains are growing like crazy since I started

using this and a

pinch of Baking Soda.

In my initial adventure trying to find Coral, I had wanted a " naturalist

approach " instead of

buying a " chemist's laboratory fabricated solution " , but I quickly recalled when

I went to a

pet store to buy real coral (cause I couldn't find it anywhere either) that over

a third of the

world's coral reefs have already died, so I didn't want to add to the commercial

demand of

buying that nice pretty piece of coral, whether living or ground to powder and

dead, and

continue adding financial incentives for their ongoing destruction.

Hope this helps.

Rob