Yes sir been out like 2 days and haven’t been able to get a reading yetHave you tried stopping the CALC dose for a day to see how much it falls?
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Yes sir been out like 2 days and haven’t been able to get a reading yetHave you tried stopping the CALC dose for a day to see how much it falls?
As I understand it calcium carbonate precipitation can rapidly drop ALK in a reef. Usually from adding in to much calcium chloride.If it is precipitating, that would lower calcium as well, no?
Or if the corals stopped absorbing what they usually do for a day and that caused theAs I understand it calcium carbonate precipitation can rapidly drop ALK in a reef. Usually from adding in to much calcium chloride.
but that rapid of an increase?60 ml does not seem like much consumption to me with coral colonies like that.
I would slowly increase dosing.
When I had precipitation it was easy to tell. The sand bed was getting hard in all but the extremely high flow areas. Good luck. Your tank is beautiful.
Randy- does this arm and hammer baking soda work?OK, we can use a calculator to determine that 0.89 ml of B-ionic alk part added to 1 L of tank water or RO/DI will boost the alk by 7 dKH.
So try something like that and then test it.
(note: the calculator rounds 0.89 mL to 0.8, so to get more significant figures, do the calculation for 10 or 100 L and divide by 10 or 100 to see the proper amount needed)
Randy- does this arm and hammer baking soda work?
Hey all. I am using the baked baking soda and my gallon is about a years old 1/4 of it left. It seems like the dosage isn't moving my parameters as much as it was before. Does the solution lose potency over time? Thanks!
I will be checking my test kit against a reference too though.
Randy- how is the potency of your baking soda alk mix compare to the potency of esv? I am making the switch so curious if I’ll have to change dosing amounts…?Yes.
Randy- how is the potency of your baking soda alk mix compare to the potency of esv? I am making the switch so curious if I’ll have to change dosing amounts…?