Balling and why

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by Aqua-Digital

The system is "sodium Chloride free, not "Chloride free"

Chloride is not the problem its the sodium chloride that is the issue if you increase the sodium Chloride without increasing the other elements, the sodium chloride will become out of proportion with the rest of the element creating ionic imbalance.

I will pass your email address to Tropic for them to explain better to you.

Or you can call Lou on 413-367-0101 in fact anyone with a question you can call Lou directly also.

Sodium Chloride breaks into sodium (NA+) and chloride (Cl-) ions in water.

If I may:

Basically, part A is adding Calcium along with chloride ions (with proper amount of ions of some elements which should be in balance with chloride ions).

Part B is adding Sodium ions along with carbonate ions (with proper amount of ions of some elements which should be in balance with sodium ion).

Part C is adding remaining elements (majority being Mg) which is independent of the Na+ and Cl- ions (hence no NaCl salt in the mix).

That's what I understood about balling "proper ionic balance". With 2 part, you are dumping just Ca+ and CO3- ions in the water with Na and Cl so the other trace ions can get imbalanced if timely water changes are not done. Atleast that's the theory.