Use Baking Power/Soda to raise Kh

[minsmarine]

As above any1 tried ?

read here http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/nov2002/chem.htm.

[typrobin]

i think its better to use additives tat are meant for reefs...

although it might be the same thing, if anything goes wrong u still can blame the product...but if u use baking soda, u will be blamed for any mishaps...eheheheh

[minsmarine]

don't know man

just used

2 hrs ago, so far nothing happen otherthan my finger very sticky.......

Kh doen't seen to be higer much ( used 2 1/2 tea spoon ) haa haa ....

morning wake up, tank crash < IT'S A DREAM >

[Jimng]

There will be ionic imbalance if too much Sodium Bicarbonate is added, there is a 2 part formula in RC where Sodium Bicarbonate is added together with Calcium Chloride, u may want to explore on that......

[Jimng]

didn't see the link in your first post - the two part formula is also provided by Randy Holmes

[hamannbmw]

i use b4 last time, no problem leh.

[salivateforme]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought baking soda is used to spike the PH, while a high KH will resist drastic swings in PH...or is this totally unrelated.

[tineng]

i use it with no problem leh.....but you do have to add it slowly in to prevent PH swing from been too drastic.....

[salivateforme]

i use it with no problem leh.....but you do have to add it slowly in to prevent PH swing from been too drastic.....

The old adage of reef lore: underdose is better than overdose...

Early in my setup, I kept getting 7.7 on my PH test kit (one of those that makes you feel like a wild-haired alchemist). Obviously, my fish and corals should have been dying in droves, but there they were, alive and well. I carried on using the kit for another month, all the while adding a commercial buffer, but the results never seemed to change...7.7 was the immutable number. I slept and dreamt it, in fact.

Then, in a fit of inspiration, I bought a PH test pen, and discovered, to my horror, that my water's PH was a blistering 8.2.

From then on, I never bought cheap test kits again....perils are too many...

[kareen]

I have used 6 part of baking soda with 1 part of washing soda mixed as buffer before. They work but make sure u have test kit to measure the parameter.

[minsmarine]

used 2 1/2 tea spoon for my 45G tank. However Kh is raise only 0.8 point. now my kh is 6 only. Used to be 9.

No other paramater affected. All my SPS and LS are doing normal.

Dosed another 3 spoons this morning , will update here again.

Oh yea test kit salifest. So reliable