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Re: Increasing CaCO3 solubility
- To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
- Subject: Re: Increasing CaCO3 solubility
- From: "Curtis Hoganson" <hoganson at pilot_msu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:14:55 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <199703191919.OAA25387 at looney_actwin.com> from "Aquatic-Plants-Owner at ActWin_com" at Mar 19, 97 02:19:48 pm
> From: Carlos Gallego <carlosag at mx2_redestb.es>
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 19:06:33 -0800
> Subject: Increasing CaCO3 solubility
>
> I am using CaCO3 to increase the KH and GH of my tap water, added in
> each water change.
>
> When I add it to the tank, it becomes very cloudy, taken about two or
> more hours to clear (I am adding CaCO3 to increase hardness in 5 dKH and
> 5 dGH).
>
> I have read in past APD that CaCO3 has low solubility in water and it
> has to react with the CO2 in the water to be disolved. My question is,
> is there any form to help CaCO3 to disolve in the water or to increase
> the reaction speed in order to get the tank clear early?
> Carlos Gallego
> E-mail: carlosag at mx2_redestb.es
You might try adding Calcium chloride (CaCl2) and Sodium bicarbonate.
--if you can stand to increase the sodium chloride content of the water.
These should dissolve very fast and not precipitate calcium carbonate.
As far as I know, there is no solid calcium bicarbonate.
--
Curtis Hoganson
Dept. of Chemistry, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824 517-355-9715 ext 260