Master Reef Chemist Certification Question!!! (yes, you want this title)

themcfreak · Feb 23, 2018

It looks beautiful! 94.7% of if was beyond me, but it looks pretty. Letters and numbers

(although I do get some of it hahaha)

reef_ranch · Feb 23, 2018

Master reef chemist indeed!

I'm not even sure I aspire to that designation if there is that much math involved!

Randy Holmes-Farley · Feb 23, 2018

acesq said:
Master reef chemist indeed!

I'm not even sure I aspire to that designation if there is that much math involved!

lol

Orcus Varuna · Feb 23, 2018

themcfreak said:
It looks beautiful! 94.7% of if was beyond me, but it looks pretty. Letters and numbers (although I do get some of it hahaha)

I wasn’t joking when I said it was a mess of math lol

five.five-six · Feb 23, 2018

I’ll stab at B 7.7

Not wanting to spend too much time, strike that ANY TIME calculating

But pH is perhydroxide

reeferfoxx · Feb 23, 2018

I'm lost. Wasn't the answer A?

ReefBeta · Feb 23, 2018

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Newb73 · Feb 23, 2018

Without really understanding too much chemisrty, I wonder why my freshly mixed water often bottoms out?

Overmixing? Precipitation? An unknown in the source water?

Is it because it's fully mixed to 34ppt?

This makes me want to take some measurements...

Larry Stewart · Feb 24, 2018

7.7 pH

Larry Stewart · Feb 24, 2018

7.7 pH

Larry Stewart · Feb 24, 2018

7.7 pH

PhreeByrd · Feb 24, 2018

Randy, you are indeed awesome. But you have too much time on your hands.

Thanks for the enlightenment!

kecked · Feb 24, 2018

Nice explaination. You should write a textbook.

Dan Cyr · Feb 24, 2018

Did this get answered, cuz I got lost after @Randy Holmes-Farley posted the first line of the question! ;Nailbiting

;Jawdrop

I have to say though, this has opened my eyes to the complexity that you folks contribute to the reef keeping community, and I for one truly appreciate every bit of your input and awesome threads. I am in no way a scholar or a mathematician (I am lucky to add and subtract money from the checkbook), more of a knuckle dragger, but seeing the equations laid out, I still go with my original answer .......

NO CLUE! ;Wacky
LOL

Randy Holmes-Farley · Feb 24, 2018

Dan Cyr said:
Did this get answered, cuz I got lost after @Randy Holmes-Farley posted the first line of the question! ;Nailbiting;Jawdrop

I have to say though, this has opened my eyes to the complexity that you folks contribute to the reef keeping community, and I for one truly appreciate every bit of your input and awesome threads. I am in no way a scholar or a mathematician (I am lucky to add and subtract money from the checkbook), more of a knuckle dragger, but seeing the equations laid out, I still go with my original answer .......

NO CLUE! ;Wacky
LOL

lol

Yes, if you mix pH 8.1 and pH 7, you get a pH value well above pH 8.1

It's one of my favorite, unexpected results in reef chemistry.

Dan Cyr · Feb 24, 2018

Thank you @Randy Holmes-Farley! I thought that was what you said but wanted to make sure. I just got home from vacation and after monitoring my tank through the Apex Fusion dashboard, and seeing the tank on camera, I thought I was good on that too but come to find out, the camera wasn't displaying the colors right because of the blues of the Kessils and got home to find all of my SPS white as a ghost. I wanted to cry. Had to tell my wife they were going through a stage (like a teenager does) lol!!!

tgionet · Feb 24, 2018

I’m going to guess linear buffering capacity... so D

GoVols · Feb 24, 2018

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
Yes, if you mix pH 8.1 and pH 7, you get a pH value well above pH 8.1

It's one of my favorite, unexpected results in reef chemistry.

Lol

That's nutz... ;Wacky

qldbulldog · Feb 24, 2018

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
Folks electing choice A or choice E should note that it says above 8.1 or below 7. I edited the question to make that more clear.

It's 7.62... because that's the caliber of the bullet I just shot myself in the head with!