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From: BRIDGE@rcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (JOHN BRIDGE)
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Subject: Re: raising pH in a marine tank..
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Date: 19 Jan 90 02:09:28 GMT
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Scott,
      Get a glass container, put some water in it, dump in a bunch of
sodium bicarbonate and mix it up until it is all dissolved. Dribble a
little bit of it into your tank, let it mix thoroughly and measure pH.
If it is not high enough, dribble in a little more, etc. etc. until
you get it the way you want it. Why a sudden drop? Gee, could be a
lot of reasons. Don't have any idea what the buffer capacity of your
tap water is. Whatever is it, you ran out of it for some unknown
reason. Various aquarium books discuss the problem. Only you can
discover just what happened in your case.       John