Calcium and Alk

[matt]

You don't need to drip the baking soda, just dissolve some in R.O. water and pour it into a high flow area in your sump. Check out the article I posted the link to; that should answer your questions. The calculator I posted the link for will tell you how much baking soda to use.

If you have a low ph, you can bake the baking soda, which turns it into sodium carbonate, which will raise your ph when added. You could buy sodium carbonate; it's called "washing soda" if you can find it. Simply baking the baking soda as described in that article will accomplish exactly the same thing.

[hobogato]

Alk 3.5 dKH

are you sure this is dKH and not meq/L?

3.5 meq/L would be equivalent to 9.8 DKH

[Mr_Cool]

WOW! Thanks Ace. I checked my test kit, and it is in meq/L. I guess I got a little confused there.

I'm in pretty good shape then, huh?

(This could have been pretty ugly, huh?! :w00t)

[Mr_Cool]

WOW! Thanks Ace. I checked my test kit, and it is in meq/L. I guess I got a little confused there.

I'm in pretty good shape then, huh?

(This could have been pretty ugly, huh?! :w00t)

[Mr_Cool]

Why do these keep posting twice?!? :wacko