Randy’s sodium hydroxide solution alternate use!

[Semisonyx]

I’ve been using it as my alk supplement for a couple months with great success. Turns out, not surprisingly, that it also works great to vaporize aiptasia! I have little success when injecting saturated kalk solution, but the lye completely disintegrates them.

 

[Garf]

I’ve been using it as my alk supplement for a couple months with great success. Turns out, not surprisingly, that it also works great to vaporize aiptasia! I have little success when injecting saturated kalk solution, but the lye completely disintegrates them.

Yep. Make a slurry with sodium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide and it cocoons and burns that alien menace, sorry wrong film :)

 

[Garf]

Actually made some up to day for my wife’s new tank. Bye bye Aiptasia, bye bye bryopsis patch :)

 

[Semisonyx]

Actually made some up to day for my wife’s new tank. Bye bye Aiptasia, bye bye bryopsis patch :)

I’m also using it to eradicate nuisance rhodactis that have been multiplying unchecked. I tried injecting with kalk, but they would just shrivel up then split in two. Now I inject with lye and they peel off the rock the next day.

 

[Garf]

I’m also using it to eradicate nuisance rhodactis that have been multiplying unchecked. I tried injecting with kalk, but they would just shrivel up then split in two. Now I inject with lye and they peel off the rock the next day.

I’ve convinced myself F-Aiptasia is just calcium hydroxide powder (kalk) mixed with sodium hydroxide (lye). I work with sodium hydroxide at work, it’s safe until you take liberties with common sense.