How do I go about doing that?or lower the alk in your tap water before you add salt.
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How do I go about doing that?or lower the alk in your tap water before you add salt.
muriatic acid, sea-chem acid buffer, or I use ball's fruit fresh (untested in reefs) It's what I had on hand
Have no idea what's going on. Tank is super high. Starting to think those API tests just suck.
I'm using reef crystals. Only thing is I'm using tap and prime. I know people say use RO but that's just not an option right now. I live far from LFS.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I used to use API now I use Salifert for CA, MG, and hannah for alk. I also have a tritonapi does suck
Bad batch of salt?
Have you tested the salt water before you add it to your tank to see what it is?
White distilled vinegar is safer. muriatic splash on you and off to the hospital use vinegar.muriatic acid, sea-chem acid buffer, or I use ball's fruit fresh (untested in reefs) It's what I had on hand
White distilled vinegar is safer. muriatic splash on you and off to the hospital use vinegar.
AHAHA I got that from BRS thank you for the correction. All this time I thought it would.But vinegar is not suitable to lower alkalinity.
An RO unit is like $100-150. You're going to spend as much on drums and water in the first month or two as just buying a unit.I guess I'll just buy a few drums and head down to the LFS.
I'll give it a try.
Any suggestions on buying my own?
But vinegar is not suitable to lower alkalinity.
HI @Randy Holmes-Farley, hope you are well and safe. To be fair to BRS I think the idea of their video suggesting household vinegar, was only for use in an emergency situation, such as a kalk reactor or doser overdosing. The idea was to quickly counter the possible lethal effect to your livestock by temporarily countering Ph and high alkalinity, just so you had enough time to find a more sustainable source such as mixing up some new salt water batch to do a large water change.
Out of interest do you think this is viable, how long would it take for the bacteria to utilise the carbon source of the vinegar to metabolise the vinegar and produce more carbonate.?
Also I am a little confused by the other posts calculation of using 9 dKH source water and mixing it with Reef Salt from a bucket with a suggested average alkalinity of say 8 dKH would produce a water mix off 17 dKH. Would not averages apply in this situation not accumulation.? Seems a little confusing to me.
Best wishes from across the pond, stay safe.
Muriatic acid is heavier then water (goes straight to the bottom unless premixed in a separate container of water before added to the tank) the fumes displace all the oxygen over the open bottle and can harm the nose and lungs. It can cause burns as mentioned earlier.
Would carbonated water be a better approach for emergencies?