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Old 12-06-2014, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by LeanneP View Post
Sorry for not posting the proper info. I use C-Balance from Two Little Fishies and when my tank is stable I dose 12 mls a day with a doser. In the last 24 hours I have dosed 40 mls of alk and a little less of Ca. I am using new Salifert test kits that I have just got last week. My alk had gone up a little to about 6.7 this morning and my ca was at 415. I have done as Mindy suggested and I added 3 tsps of reef builder from Seachem. Is Cbalance not very strong? I will post the results of the alk at 11:20 when an hour is up. Thanks for all the help.


12mls isnt much and 40mls isnt much either , so yes youll need to add much more alk to get where you want it


some people have to does in the hundreds of mls ( a friend doses 1g of alk and cal a week in a 120g sps packed tank)

it would take well over 200mls of bicarbonate solution just to birng your tank to 9dkh, this doesnt take in account how much your tank uses.


if c balance is a bicarbonate solution then its not as strong as a sodium carbonate solution would be , im not sure what their product would be but it would be either or if its in salt form.
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