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Unread 01/15/2017, 05:11 PM   #13
karimwassef
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Datapoint. I was curing ~100lbs of concrete in my tank (before life).

The starting pH was 11
I turned on my very large skimmer
pH dropped to 9 very quickly and then stabilized to 8 within a few hours.

This was in ~500gal of tap water.

I kept this up for a couple of weeks - pH never went above 8.3. I would occasionally turn the skimmer off to test the "curing"

math problem: how much CO2 does it take to do that and how is it that this abundance of CO2 is not available to algae?

My conclusion - as quickly as the algae (or in my case concrete) consumes CO2, it is replenished - the state it is in CO2, carbonate or bicarbonate doesn't matter.


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