How much Calc/Alk Are You Dosing?

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by medhatreefguy

I've been baking mine mainly due to my low PH. I found that bicarbonate drove my PH down.

Yes it does lower the pH a bit, my tank currently runs at about 7.9-8.0 but prior to dosing I was using a calcium reactor that kept the tank at about 7.8 with no problems. I'm not as hung up on pH as I am with low alk so unbaked it is. I was also getting a ton of precipitate (like small mountains of it) in the sump with the baked stuff. No problems with the unbaked. I'm not sure if I was doing something wrong or what but the precipitate was really annoying.