Warning! Potential Problem with Kent Salt.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by marie

sigh, if anyone is keeping count, the bucket of salt my husband picked up for me is one of the low dkh ones . It's not like i can just run to the closest lfs to pick up some more either and I'm in the process of filling my 175g bowfront

I'm told that you can adjust the alk pretty easily with baking soda (sodium bicarb). It beats the heck out of a long drive and expensive shipping...

From advanced aquarist To raise 50 gallons of tank water by 1 meq/L will require about 16 grams of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate; sodium hydrogencarbonate). Since a level teaspoon of baking soda weighs just under 6 grams, then 1 teaspoon will raise the alkalinity in that 50 gallons by ~0.4 meq/L (~1 dKH).