Have You Checked Your Alkalinity Today?

[Touring]

As long as one is mixed in, you can add the second. What you don't want is two concentrated clouds of the chemical to interact. That can lead to precipitation of calcium carbonate.

So a half hour is almost always enough. In some tanks, just one minute may be plenty if there is lots of flow.

Thanks for this info,i wasent really sure i just did them 3 hours apart lol.

i do alk at night and cal during the day. is that okay?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Thanks for this info,i wasent really sure i just did them 3 hours apart lol.

i do alk at night and cal during the day. is that okay?

Yes, that's perfectly fine.

 

[Rob&Gab]

what website are you guys using to check your ALK~!!!?? i use Saltyzoo.com.

anyone know if that is a good site to use?

 

[Pumbooris]

I use salty zoo too its pretty convenient for converting the hanna checker readings to DKH.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

What do you need the web site for? Just a math conversion?

No pencils handy?

 

[Pumbooris]

Whats the math conversion?

 

[ritter6788]

Whats the math conversion?

PPM x .056 = dkh

 

[Diesel]

What do you need the web site for? Just a math conversion?

No pencils handy?

Good one, but I can taste what my ALK # is, :tongue:

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Good one, but I can taste what my ALK # is, :tongue:

Does it taste good?

 

[Diesel]

Does it taste good?

Randy, I must say like crap!
But the time I was dosing Vodka I was testing/tasting three times a day, lol
Ok, back to topic

 

[pickupman66]

Last night.. 163 PPM. I like to keep it at 175 PPM. which is 9.8DkH. for my maring I really just want to keep it in the 170's. we were a bit low last night so I had to dose some BRS 2 part. alkalinity.