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I saw a video where they recommended a mix of sodium carbonate and bicarbonate for increased stability. They mentioned that the same approach is used by Brightwell Alkalin 8.3. I understand sodium carbonate causes a short term increase in pH and sodium bicarbonate a smaller but also short term decrease.
Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) does get converted to Soda Ash (sodium carbonate) by heating....preferably in an oven. What occurs is the heat drives off a carbon dioxide converting the bicarb. to the carb. In baking applications, it acts like a "chemical" yeast, producing little bubbles in the cake/bread/whatever you're baking.
Instantly. The online reef calculator is pretty spot on. And a big kudos for using sodium bicarb and going through the effort of doing it the right way vs wasting money on those rip off, pre bottled two parts
It’s best to make it into a gallon solution and dose it into sump slowly. Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) aka:”arm and hammer”, 1 1/8 cup dissolved into a gallon jug of RO/DI water.
I am using brs sodium bicarbonate for the alk. tank is doing very well, sps coral growing. My daily dose 180mL of soda ash mix and 95mL Calcium mix with using Kalk solutions for the ATO (8 tsp per 5 gallon). Alk steady at 7.5-8.4 , Ca at 440 and Mg 1,300 with 7mL per day. Question: since I am about to run out my Sod Bicarbonate, should I try ...
I read up on making Cyano Acrylate stronger for bonding rockwork before adding reef epoxy. I found two options, Sodium Bicarb and Calcium oxide/hydroxide. Which would form a stronger bond with CA? Bicarb or kalkwasser? If the bond is super strong then I might be able to forgo the epoxy putty as I cant get it easily here on the island. Thanks bro.
I input my Ward Labs water report into Bru'n Water and I can't manipulate the dilution with distilled water and the water additions to hit all 3 targets of sodium, bicarbonate and (perhaps most importantly?) mash pH. My existing water profile includes: sodium 58, sulfate 45 (after multiplying SO4-S by 3), and bicarbonate (HCO3) 183.
Converting that into a dry weight ratio of the two compounds by multiplying by the MW of sodium bicarbonate (84) divided by the MW of sodium carbonate (106), we get 8.2 * 84 / 106 = 6.5. So a 6.5:1 ratio of grams of sodium bicarbonate to sodium carbonate should give a pH of around 8.2 when dissolved in seawater.
Also, supposedly you can make Sodium Carbonate (or Washing Soda) from Baking Soda (cook at 400f, to take bicarbonate into carbonate, water and carbon dioxide). Sodium metasilicate is created by fusing sodium carbonate with silica sand at about 1400 degrees celsius. Sodium metasilicate enhances cleaning performance and efficiency primarily by ...
I can't remember the quantities, but I remember it calls for a lot of sodium bicarbonate and very little sodium carbonate. Personally, if your pH is already high enough as it is, I would just use sodium bicarbonate. Increasing your alkalinity by 1.4 dKh using sodium bicarbonate only lowers your pH by about 0.04. Even if you dose almost 3 dKh ...