Kalk: Alternatives?

It seems unlikely that you can run a successful sal****er tank without
understanding at least a little chemistry. Kalkwasser is pretty easy to
do,
and if that troubles you then I wonder about the other aspects of water
chemistry for you (test kits, nitrate cycle, mixing up new sal****er,
etc.).

I beg to differ with you: I understand nothing about chemistry and my tank
does fine for 5 years now. I never had Chemistry in school, I do know how to
read a test kit and do water changes. But to be perfectly honest, other
then matching colors against a color chart and knowing where my levels
should be, and using a hydrometer and knowing where that needs to be..I
don't understand a lick of it. Then again I only have a FOWLR. I would love
to do corals but not understanding chemistry, its seems like to much work
for me.