sfsuphysics
Supporting Member
So how are some of you doing it?
Best I can figure is not dose anything for a couple days, and test your alkalinity before and after, however some issues tend to arise with doing this. First you might need a fairly accurate test kit, something on the order of 0.1 dKh resolution, I guess you could scale up the volume of water you testing, however by doing that you might make it so diluted you might not even see the color at all, is there a kit out there with a small resolution? Second, the consumption is directly related to how much there is, a tank that is lower on the alkalinity is going to have its inhabitants consume less, so I guess you need to raise your tank to the appropriate levels first (testing all three parameters, Alk,Ca, Mag) and then see what happens after a couple days.
So lets hear some other methods? Or is this THE method?
Best I can figure is not dose anything for a couple days, and test your alkalinity before and after, however some issues tend to arise with doing this. First you might need a fairly accurate test kit, something on the order of 0.1 dKh resolution, I guess you could scale up the volume of water you testing, however by doing that you might make it so diluted you might not even see the color at all, is there a kit out there with a small resolution? Second, the consumption is directly related to how much there is, a tank that is lower on the alkalinity is going to have its inhabitants consume less, so I guess you need to raise your tank to the appropriate levels first (testing all three parameters, Alk,Ca, Mag) and then see what happens after a couple days.
So lets hear some other methods? Or is this THE method?