djkms
Fish Freak
I am looking to do a pretty big water change today. I believe I have a big buildup of DOC in my water and for peace of mind I want to do a 50-75% water change.
Anyways I have a buddy who owns an aquarium maintenance company and he is going to help me with this. We mixed up a fresh batch of Salinity yesterday and I tested the alk today. It reads pretty low at 6.7dKH (I retested twice). My system is currently at 9.6dKH so obviously this big of a change is not good. I said we could just add buffer to the vat and he suggested against it. He stated to me that every time he has added buffer in the past to fresh salt that it would just precipitate out calcium and milk up the water. So my question is, what is the best way around this?
I know he just switched to Salinity recently and it has near NSW levels of calcium. The salt he used previously was Kent Marine which would read around 520ish in CA. Could that be the cause of his precipitation issue with adding buffer? Would we be safe bringing up dKH almost 3 points in newly mixed salt? How long should we wait to do the change after adding the buffer?
I know I can do smaller water changes frequently, I know massive water changes are advised against, im just looking to get a answer on the addition of buffer to newly mixed saltwater
Thanks,
Kris
Anyways I have a buddy who owns an aquarium maintenance company and he is going to help me with this. We mixed up a fresh batch of Salinity yesterday and I tested the alk today. It reads pretty low at 6.7dKH (I retested twice). My system is currently at 9.6dKH so obviously this big of a change is not good. I said we could just add buffer to the vat and he suggested against it. He stated to me that every time he has added buffer in the past to fresh salt that it would just precipitate out calcium and milk up the water. So my question is, what is the best way around this?
I know he just switched to Salinity recently and it has near NSW levels of calcium. The salt he used previously was Kent Marine which would read around 520ish in CA. Could that be the cause of his precipitation issue with adding buffer? Would we be safe bringing up dKH almost 3 points in newly mixed salt? How long should we wait to do the change after adding the buffer?
I know I can do smaller water changes frequently, I know massive water changes are advised against, im just looking to get a answer on the addition of buffer to newly mixed saltwater
Thanks,
Kris