dcombs44
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My wife and I have an above ground swimming pool, and we use a handful of grocery store items to treat it rather than paying boocoo bucks for pool chemicals. We treat with bleach (chlorine), borax (pH plus), pH minus (actual pool chemical), baking soda (alkalinity plus).
I was wondering if some of these items would be safe to use to adjust parameters in our tanks. I know that we use baking soda to adjust pH as described in Randy's 2 part recipes, but I was wondering about some of the others.
1) pH minus - the particular chemical I use is sodium bisulfate. Another option is phosphoric acid. I know some people do use muriatic acid in their reefs.
2) Borax - Standard Borax laundry booster is used to raise pH.
Of course, if they aren't safe, I'll buy recommended items instead, but since i have all of these on hand, I'd rather use them.
Thanks.
I was wondering if some of these items would be safe to use to adjust parameters in our tanks. I know that we use baking soda to adjust pH as described in Randy's 2 part recipes, but I was wondering about some of the others.
1) pH minus - the particular chemical I use is sodium bisulfate. Another option is phosphoric acid. I know some people do use muriatic acid in their reefs.
2) Borax - Standard Borax laundry booster is used to raise pH.
Of course, if they aren't safe, I'll buy recommended items instead, but since i have all of these on hand, I'd rather use them.

Thanks.