also if you are dealing with mostly just fish and Ca is of no concern then SeaChem labs
Marine Buffer, but not for a reef tank where there is a Ca demand

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"Boomer" wrote in message
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: Baking Soda should be fine or a combination of baking soda and soda ash ( washing soda,
: NaCO3), at a ratio of 5:1
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: : "Boomer" wrote in message
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: : "I am not sure, but it is to fight higher level of pollution with acids
: : normally occurring in our closed systems in our fish tanks.
: : I am not able to keep alkalinity high neither and I am also
: : fighting with chronic too much algae"
: :
: : Yes we usually recommend levels of 3.5-4.5 meq / l. If your alk is going down to
: things
: : are happening. The load is high and using it up and/or corals need it to make CaCO3.
: It is
: : normal for many systems to have/get a lower Alk for these reasons. Alk will drop
much
: : faster than Ca on normal conditions in some tanks, as there is much, much, more Ca
in
: : relation to Alk. In other words if your corals removed all the Alk your system had
to
: : 0Alk, to make CaCO3, where the Ca was 400 mg/ l , the Ca would only drop to about
375
: mg /
: : l Ca
: :
: : Get some Baking Soda to raise the Alk up to 3.5
: :
: : The thing is in my case I do not have too much corals, no hard ones in a matter of
fact,
: : but I have heavy load of fish: quite a big tang and three other small fish in 30 g
tank.
: : How should I keep up with rising alk in my case? Will baking soda work for me?
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