soda ash

Hey there! I recently switch my dosing for alk from Soda Ash to Sodium bicarbonate. Do I need to adjust my dose (ml/day) to achieve the same DKH in the tank? I just kept dosing 15ml per day the same as the calcium but now my Alk reading is super low so I'm wondering what's going on? Any advice...

I make my own saltwater using Tropic Marin Pro Reef salt and RODI out of a 6-stage filter. I mix it in a brute trash can with a powerhead dropped in. I also add Soda Ash after the sal is fully mixed to bring the alkalinity up from the 7 that the salt mixes to to ~9.5. The Soda ash is BRS...

What effect will that have on my tank? I have noticed white specs all over my glass seems like precipitants. I know they are not alive I simply clean my glass and a few weeks later they return. Is this from mostly dosing Alk? If I continue this what will happen? So I am very new at Reefing...

Hello Reefers, I needed to increase my pH so I got some soda ash and made a mixed solution with RO water. After letting it sit for 12 hours I decided to add it to my tank. My tank was cloudy for a while and had some remains of soda ash that didn’t completely dissolve. The water cleared but...

I am following the instructions for Recipe #1, Part 2: The Alkalinity Part When it says to cook 594g of baking soda - how many grams of the resulting soda ash should I be using? A. 594g of soda ash? B. Or the amount that 594g of baking soda cooked down to? In my case it looks like it cooked...

Hi folks, I am looking to implement 2-part/balling method using sodium carbonate, however most products I see being sold here in the UK use sodium bicarbonate. I would like to run my pH a little higher, hence my interest in using soda ash. BRS soda ash is not available here, and although I am...

Hi all, I have been dosing manually by hand each day - up until now... I have a new GHL Doser I am setting up. Up until now, I have been mixing 1tsp of Soda Ash in RODI water and manually adding it to the tank each day. This has been keeping my Alk and pH right where I want them. Now that I...

Not sure if this question has been asked before but is there a possibility I could negatively Affect my tank if I choose to dose soda ash since my tanks dkh and ph have been relatively low lately dkh 7.4 ph 7.8≈ - Hector

First, I Would love to # Terrance and crew to thank them but can’t find them I know we’ve all have gotten alarms on our tanks for something going wrong but this has no alarm, at least none that I have. Jumping right in, I generally test my Alk about every 2-3 days unless I’ve mixed new...

I keep testing my pH and trusting the Red Sea test kit, which shows a consistent 8.0-8.4 number throughout the day. Since I like this number over that of the probe, I've assumed it was correct. Now, I replaced my Neptune systems double junction probe without of BRS, also double junction. Both...

Will soda ash help?

50 gal tank is 6 months old, SPS dominated. Everything was going great then most of the SPS turned very pale 4 days ago and I've lost 10 of them since then. sg - 1.025 cal - 450 mag - 1350 alk - 10.5 dkh pH - 8.0 nitrate - 0 with API test kit, 10 ppm with Elos (consistently) phosphate - 0.05...