What Are Your Thoughts For Alk

[Luke.]

Bicarbonate Liquid
or
Soda ash ?
What do you use and why ?

 

[Pistol]

Soda ash is baked (400 degrees for an hour) baking soda, the heat gasses off the co2 therefore has less impact on ph

 

[Luke.]

Soda ash is baked (400 degrees for an hour) baking soda, the heat gasses off the co2 therefore has less impact on ph

Do you find ph is a common issue for you / what do you use ?

 

[Pistol]

I've been using a calcium reactor for a few years now but when I was dosing I found not baking the baking soda caused the ph to drop. It was Randy Holmes Farly's 2 part that recommended baking the baking soda to turn it into soda ash

 

[chrisstevens]

I use soda ash , but that just what I’m use to using.

 

[teebone110]

Soda ash over here

 

[Matt1997]

Soda ash here

 

[Luke.]

You guys does it though out the day or at night ?
How many ml you guys roughly use (I know everyone’s tank will be different)

 

[Painter Steve]

Cal throughout the day and Alk at night when the lights are off. I'm dosing 22.5ml of Cal and 24ml Alk in a heavily stocked 43g.

 

[Cliff]

Reef supply soda ash here. But I am looking at setting up my calcium reactor again though. I’m up to 170 ml a day. Even using the cheap stuff it gets pricy

 

[Matt1997]

I dose more during the day less at night.

 

[teebone110]

approx 90 mls per day- at night to keep things stable

 

[chrisstevens]

I space mine out through out the day. For example right now with hardly any corals in my tank I think I’m at 50ml a day at 6, 12, 18 and24:00. Before when my tank was packed it was like 250 ml a day either every hour or every other hour I can’t remember.

 

[Luke.]

I space mine out through out the day. For example right now with hardly any corals in my tank I think I’m at 50ml a day at 6, 12, 18 and24:00. Before when my tank was packed it was like 250 ml a day either every hour or every other hour I can’t remember.

seriously .. holy , that’s quite a bit how big that tank / what’s in it sps ?

 

[chrisstevens]

It is a 200gal and when it was packed it was mainly sps