what PH from carbonite
 

hey forr you people using calcium sugar sand have you noticced if it will buffer the water to a specific PH? I guess you wouldent be able to tell in salt water but if some one has some lying around could yyou try to put some in a glass of fresh water and see what the ph is raised to. I used water from one of my fresh water tanks to test the lime I got and I expected a rise in PH as my fresh water tank is a PH of 6.2. it has been sitting for 3 hours and looks like the PH has stabled out at 7.8.
asuming that salt water PH is 8.2 this should be fine (I think [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] ) butt I want to seee the results with some sugar sand also.

Steve

what PH from carbonite
 

Your 4 hours too late, just put in 30lbs in my Fish only tank, none left for testing. Sorry...

what PH from carbonite
 

Hey Steve, give me a call, I have some caribsea sugar sand you can try. My ph tester sucks so I can't test it for you, but I can give you some. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

what PH from carbonite
 

cool Bruce, e-mail me your # again (I will write it down this time) and I will call you tomorrow andd arange to pick a bit up from ya.. that would be better as I could test the two in the same water..

thanks
Steve

what PH from carbonite
 

you have mail! [img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img]

what PH from carbonite
 

Steve, I have some fresh sand and a digital pH meter.

what PH from carbonite
 

a digital meter would be much better.. hmmm
you free anytime tomorrow Brad? we could get togeather and I could bring a sample of the lime to retest also.

Steve

what PH from carbonite
 

RO water pH 8.03

RO water with aragamax sugar pH 10.45

recently calibrated and new probe.. Will update in the am.

Now at 9.93, 20 min later..

[ 05 January 2002: Message edited by: DJ88 ]

what PH from carbonite
 

Hey Darrren, did you say fresh RO is 8.03? shouldent it be 7.0? or are you talking about RO mixed with sea salt?

Steve

what PH from carbonite
 

RO/DI Measured as 8.03 last night.. pH of the sand in fresh water is 8.9 this morning.

[ 05 January 2002: Message edited by: DJ88 ]