Can I mix Fauna Marin's balling light trace 3, or Tropic Marin's A- or K+ trace elements to a soda ash solution?
This will allow me to dose trace elements without having a discrete dosing pump.
From what I can find online the Fauna Marin Trace 3 was meant to be mixed with the FM carbonate mix (which I understand to be Sodium Bicarbonate). If the FM trace 3 (seems to be made from "Potassium, Sodium Fluor, Iodine, Bromine, stabilizers. Based on inorganic compounds.") were to be mixed with soda ash (which has a far higher pH), will there be adverse reactions/precipitation such that the resultant mix would be ineffective?
Ditto for the Tropic Marin A- or K+ mixes (iirc BRSTv advocated mixing A- with soda ash).
if so, how do I adapt the dosage for the FM trace 3 meant for sodium bicarbonate to soda ash (i.e. if someone used to use 5g of Bicarbonate powder equivalent per day, how many g of soda ash would yield the same kH boost?)
Thanks!
This will allow me to dose trace elements without having a discrete dosing pump.
From what I can find online the Fauna Marin Trace 3 was meant to be mixed with the FM carbonate mix (which I understand to be Sodium Bicarbonate). If the FM trace 3 (seems to be made from "Potassium, Sodium Fluor, Iodine, Bromine, stabilizers. Based on inorganic compounds.") were to be mixed with soda ash (which has a far higher pH), will there be adverse reactions/precipitation such that the resultant mix would be ineffective?
Ditto for the Tropic Marin A- or K+ mixes (iirc BRSTv advocated mixing A- with soda ash).
if so, how do I adapt the dosage for the FM trace 3 meant for sodium bicarbonate to soda ash (i.e. if someone used to use 5g of Bicarbonate powder equivalent per day, how many g of soda ash would yield the same kH boost?)
Thanks!