what PH from carbonite

[StirCrazy]

hey forr you people using calcium sugar sand have you noticced if it will buffer the water to a specific PH? I guess you wouldent be able to tell in salt water but if some one has some lying around could yyou try to put some in a glass of fresh water and see what the ph is raised to. I used water from one of my fresh water tanks to test the lime I got and I expected a rise in PH as my fresh water tank is a PH of 6.2. it has been sitting for 3 hours and looks like the PH has stabled out at 7.8.
asuming that salt water PH is 8.2 this should be fine (I think images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif ) butt I want to seee the results with some sugar sand also.

Steve

[ldzielak]

Your 4 hours too late, just put in 30lbs in my Fish only tank, none left for testing. Sorry...

[Silverfish]

Hey Steve, give me a call, I have some caribsea sugar sand you can try. My ph tester sucks so I can't test it for you, but I can give you some. images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[StirCrazy]

cool Bruce, e-mail me your # again (I will write it down this time) and I will call you tomorrow andd arange to pick a bit up from ya.. that would be better as I could test the two in the same water..

thanks
Steve

[Silverfish]

you have mail! images/smiles/icon_cool.gif

[Aquattro]

Steve, I have some fresh sand and a digital pH meter.

[StirCrazy]

a digital meter would be much better.. hmmm
you free anytime tomorrow Brad? we could get togeather and I could bring a sample of the lime to retest also.

Steve

[DJ88]

RO water pH 8.03

RO water with aragamax sugar pH 10.45

recently calibrated and new probe.. Will update in the am.

Now at 9.93, 20 min later..

[ 05 January 2002: Message edited by: DJ88 ]

[StirCrazy]

Hey Darrren, did you say fresh RO is 8.03? shouldent it be 7.0? or are you talking about RO mixed with sea salt?

Steve

[DJ88]

RO/DI Measured as 8.03 last night.. pH of the sand in fresh water is 8.9 this morning.

[ 05 January 2002: Message edited by: DJ88 ]