Water turns cloudy when alk is dosed

[PegasisR]

Why is this happening? When i dose alk it hits the water and turns cloudy... is that normal?

 

[redfishbluefish]

Normal. But you want to dose in a high flow area....and that cloudiness will quickly dissipate.

 

[PegasisR]

Normal. But you want to dose in a high flow area....and that cloudiness will quickly dissipate.

Okay! Im dosing it in the skimmer chamber is that fine?

 

[Ryan Toovey]

The skimmer chamber doesn’t seem best to me.

I mix mine with a small cup of R/O water and pour very slowly into the path of a power head. I watch to make sure it’s dissipating quickly enough that the white cloud never has a chance to reach any corals.

 

[Bill_Moorman]

This happened because when you added the soda ash (I assume), it creates a localized pocket of high pH, which is the white cloud you see.

Normal and expected.

 

[lapin]

When needed I dose into the filter socks. Any that precipitates out will be re - dissolved by water passing thru the socks

 

[Reefer1978]

Skimmer chamber is fine IMHO.

 

[PegasisR]

Thank you all! Ill pick up a sock and dose through there!

 

[Raege]

I drop my RedSea liquid into return compartment in tank to sump