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I have a question, mainly to Randy maybe: I understand the mechanism how OH ions makes true carbonate alkalinity. BUT, in contrary to if you add "true" carbonates directly, the OH makes ALL other ones aswell going to its alkalinity equivalent. Boric acid will also take take up some of the added OH ions making borate alkalinity to raise, and the same for all acids that will be neutralized by the added OH ions. So what I am saying is, that not 100% of the added OH ions will manufacture carbonates, but only a portion of these and that amount is out of control as we don't know what other acids we have in the system. For instance we also have a lot of organic acids, that will release its hydrogen ions to the OH ion, and in that way not give all OH ions the possibility to create carbonates. AND as that is what we want with adding alkalinity (that more or less 100% of the alkalinity shall be in form of carbonate alkalinity), I wonder if its really good in long term replace loss of carbonate consumption by corals with only NaOH.
/Jonas Roman
/Jonas Roman