Re: [APD] pH control (Stuart Halliday)

["David Scott" <dscott000 at ns_sympatico.ca>]

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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:39:38 +0000
> From: Stuart Halliday <stuart at mytriops_com>
> Subject: Re: [APD] pH control
> To: aquatic plants digest <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
>
> I believe BRiaN Forsythe wrote this email section below:
>> Sounds like what they do with kalkwasser (a calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)2)
>> solution).  I'd try googling that.
>
> I wonder what would happen if you added a solution of sodium bicarbonate 
> in?
>
> When I add that to my low KH water it raises the KH and the pH goes up.
>
> Cheap as chips...?
>
> -- 
> Stuart Halliday
> http://mytriops.com/
> 200 Million years in the making...


Sodium bicarbonate only has a pH of 8.2, doesn't it? 

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