Raising alk in salt mix station

[shrive81]

Hey guys

so I’m new and I have a 100 gallon tank and have a mixing station made up at home to hold 100 gallons of mixed salt water. I am using the tropic Marin pro salt. I am mainly using it cause it stores so clean and little precipitate. The salt mix is roughly always at a 7dkh but want the water to be at a 8.5.

I bought the bra sodium bicarbonate mix

my question is can I just use that in the mixing station everytime I mix up 100 gallons to bring it up to the desired 8.5dkh in the mixing station that way I always have the proper dkh when I’m doing my weekly water changes and then just maintain the parameters in the DT

hope this made sense

here is the mixing station

 

[Rollman]

Nice station. I use TM pro and dose my mixing station water to 8. No probs reported

 

[shrive81]

Ok so I can probably just test the water and then use the bra calculator to either add the sodium bicarbonate powder to the tank

 

[Rollman]

Yes

 

[shrive81]

Yes

Thanks man

 

[Justice4u2]

I hope that i am not hi-jacking here. But when you are raising your dkh in your mixing containers (very nice BTW) do you add in equal amounts of calcium? Or do you adjust the calcium to where you want it? Or only add dkh?
I also use tropic Marin pro salt as well, and have the same issues with a low dkh. I am considering dosing my mixing containers, using BRS's Sodium Bicarbonate.