lime water help

[ethank77]

How do I get buy and use lime water.

[Bri Guy]

Read this first, then come back with any questions you have...

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rhf/index.htm

I buy Mrs. Wages pickling lime, from most grocery stores or found at walmart, usually in the pickling isle (maybe by the spices)

note: not pickling salt

[ethank77]

thank you now I need a recipe for mixing

[Bri Guy]

I thought that artical had the recipe in it, but I couldn't find it in there either.

2 tsp/g is fully saturated, meaning any more put in there will just settle out at the bottom

use this calculator to figure out how much you should dose...
http://home.comcast.net/~jdieck1/chemcalc.html

some people start out at 1tsp/g and see how that works, and you just have to test a lot until you figure out your tanks demand.

Good Luck!

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Yes, I guess I didn't make that part of the dosing section very clear.

[ethank77]

Thank bot of you very much it seems through the reading of the artical in the arcives that I have a co2 problem this morning my ph is down to 7.67 I run reverse lighting to help that but it is not enough.

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

:thumbsup:

Limewater would be a good way to help it. :)