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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V2 #837

To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
Subject: Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V2 #837
From: "Roger S. Miller" <rgrmill at rt66_com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 12:08:33 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199707161948.PAA02456 at acme_actwin.com>

>
> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 17:49:51 +0800 (HKT)
> From: Ricky Wai Wah Leung <kfrickie at HK_Super.NET>
> Subject: Is it possible
>
> My question is, based on the calculation, is it possible to produced
> high dissolved amount of CO2(18mg/l)  with simply adding CaCO3 and pH adjustmentnt
> ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rickie
>

Dissolving CaCO3 would increase your buffer and your pH.  If you then
added an acid to lower your pH, then the added buffer would be converted
to CO2 and you would end up with a *lot* of calcium salts (general
hardness) in your water.  Unless you added CaCO3 and acid on a continuous
basis the procedure would only get you a burst of CO2.

It would be far easier (and safer for everything involved) to just add
CO2.

Roger Miller

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