Vinegar, NO, how about Acetic or muriatic acid?

[littlesilvermax]

Randy at RC says to use the muriatic acid. Way stronger then Acetic, but with less added it obviously has less buffering capacity, so I may need to add more as it eats up coraline and stuff.

Boy my house is gonna stink!

[Aquattro]

Remember, add acid to water, not the other way around. and neutralize it before disposal, a few boxes of baking soda should do it.

[Chin_Lee]

WAYYY off on a side note, there's many literature about adding vinegar to kalkwater to saturate the cal/alk levels. Does the same benefits apply with HCL?

[littlesilvermax]

Scrapped off a ton of coraline, maybe 4 or 5 lbs (not kidding either).

Tank is full of tap water now, added about 1 liter of muriatic acid to tank, ph dropped to 2.4. (330 gallons of system water). Within 30 mins ph went up to 2.8, added another liter. Then after a few hours added a few more liters. Ph is now at about 2.2. Not sure how low I should go, I will watch it over the next little while, see how it is tomorrow.

So far we cannot smell it in the house, but the skimmer is going crazy!

[littlesilvermax]

FWIW I bought 40 liters of muriatic acid.