Re: [APD] KHCO3 Source! -- or - KHCO3 source of wonder

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

Hey, did you allow for leap years? ;-)

Scott H. 
--- Gwmangen at cs_com wrote:
> Arm & Hammer makes potassium bicarbonate.  They sell it
> by the ton.  It's 
> called Flow-K and is a substitute for baking soda for
> people on sodium restricted 
> diets.  A local distributor says I can have a fifty pound
> bag of it for 
> $50.00.
> 
> Hmmmmmm, let's see a fifty pound bag for my two gallon
> aquarium.  I change 
> the water every three days and add about 350 mg of KHCO3.
>  There are 22,680 
> grams in a fifty pound bag divided by 0.35 grams that's
> 64,800 doses which 
> multiplied by 3 days and divided by 365 days in a year is
> enough to last me 532 years 
> and 7 months.
> 
> On the other hand you would need 66 pounds of KHCO3 to
> initially dose the 
> 200,000 liter tank they're building.
> 
> Best regards, George Mangen
> 
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