If you don't have a chance to reread what was condensed in that old thread....
DON'T use muriatic/pool/Hydrochloric acid if you don't have the safety margin of dilution afforded to you by a sump!
Also note ALL the safety concerns.
See the other tips FIRST!
ESPECIALLY, Where I describe tried and tested NON_ADDITIVE SOLUTIONS...
RO -TOPUPS (UNBUFFERED),
and
WATERCHANGES
David:
YES, alkalinity will drop...straight out of solution, but NOT as a countermeasure.
Precipitation, knows no limits...you WILL disastrously , and unpredictably lose Alkalinity, Calcium , Magnesium and Strontium. Besides, "overdosing" to correct another parameter is far too imprecise and unsafe.
Then ask yourself, how you repair the massive decline of Ca, Mg, Sr, Alk???
With more than a few waterchanges of the CORRECT parameters, within a short period.
NOTE! Volume of water to be changed is much more than 100% , to avoid the chain reaction, that is induced precipitation.
DON'T use muriatic/pool/Hydrochloric acid if you don't have the safety margin of dilution afforded to you by a sump!
Also note ALL the safety concerns.
See the other tips FIRST!
ESPECIALLY, Where I describe tried and tested NON_ADDITIVE SOLUTIONS...
RO -TOPUPS (UNBUFFERED),
and
WATERCHANGES
David:
YES, alkalinity will drop...straight out of solution, but NOT as a countermeasure.
Precipitation, knows no limits...you WILL disastrously , and unpredictably lose Alkalinity, Calcium , Magnesium and Strontium. Besides, "overdosing" to correct another parameter is far too imprecise and unsafe.
Then ask yourself, how you repair the massive decline of Ca, Mg, Sr, Alk???
With more than a few waterchanges of the CORRECT parameters, within a short period.
NOTE! Volume of water to be changed is much more than 100% , to avoid the chain reaction, that is induced precipitation.
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