PH and Hardness
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Troy992 said:
If possible, you should use non-softened water in your tank. Water softeners work by substituting one ion for another. The ion they happen to replace your hardness with is Sodium. This is not really a very good thing.
SirWired
sodium
is the sodium why my KH is so high?
whats not so good about the sodium?
do I have to lower KH to lower pH?
I guess this is why I never have to add salt (salt level never drops below 2800ppm) to the swimming pool when I top it off with the softner water?
is the sodium why my KH is so high?
whats not so good about the sodium?
do I have to lower KH to lower pH?
I guess this is why I never have to add salt (salt level never drops below 2800ppm) to the swimming pool when I top it off with the softner water?
You don't have to lower kh to affect ph it usually works the other way around. The kh is carbonate hardness ,"minerals in solution" as your ph falls some of it will start to precipitate out of the solution. In this case it's probably not possilbe for the nacl ions to percipitate. Do you know what the specific gravity of your water is? I'd guess that with the softener that it might well be almost brakish water. I might be wrong though.
hth
max
sorry saw a water chemistry question and couldn't help myself.
hth
max
sorry saw a water chemistry question and couldn't help myself.
salt water gravity meter
using the salt water gravity meter i used for my marine tank it is not even @ 1.0 or 0 ppm??
I also didnt mention the fact that after my softner it is run thru a drinking water 2 filter system? 1 removes pesticides and cycst, and the other is just a carbon filter to remove tatses.
using the salt water gravity meter i used for my marine tank it is not even @ 1.0 or 0 ppm??
I also didnt mention the fact that after my softner it is run thru a drinking water 2 filter system? 1 removes pesticides and cycst, and the other is just a carbon filter to remove tatses.
No, you won't. There isn't that much in there. It usually cannot be measured without electronic instrumentation.
As to the carbon filters, etc... If you were wondering if they remove salt - no, they will not. Ther only ways to remove dissolved salt are distillation, RO, or RO/DI.
As to the carbon filters, etc... If you were wondering if they remove salt - no, they will not. Ther only ways to remove dissolved salt are distillation, RO, or RO/DI.