Dosing lime reduce nitrates
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jonthefishguy
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Lime or lime water? Lime water aka kalkwasser will not reduce nitrates directly but will give your protein skimmer a small boost and thus help it remove waste before it breaks down completely and becomes a problem. If the person is talking about the fruit lime, never heard of such a thing.
sharkbait9
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Originally Posted by ninjamini
Some one told me that dosing lime will reduce nitrates. Any truth to this?
What, I never heard of such a thing. Then again I never heard of seltzer water to drive out hitchhikers until I watch a lady do it and that works, so stranger things do work.
I won't try it until I see someone else do it.
Some one told me that dosing lime will reduce nitrates. Any truth to this?
What, I never heard of such a thing. Then again I never heard of seltzer water to drive out hitchhikers until I watch a lady do it and that works, so stranger things do work.
I won't try it until I see someone else do it.
turtlegirl933
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I don't think it will...
turtlegirl933
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Originally Posted by ninjamini
Some one told me that dosing lime will reduce nitrates. Any truth to this?
I don't think it will...
Some one told me that dosing lime will reduce nitrates. Any truth to this?
I don't think it will...
wattsupdoc
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Adding limewater does help remove phosphate. Not sure about nitrates. There are much better easier ways to do this though, LR and a good LS bed are awesome NNR's.
This is the way I understand it......
If you add the kalkwasser near the intake of your skimmer, then the localized generally higher concentration of the limewater will "bond" to certain elements in the water. Because it has a higher concentration of calcium carbonate, there will be a small precipitation of these. Causing them then to be skimmed out. But I don't believe that even if it does anything with the nitrates, you would have a noticeable amount of decrease. Someone on here had a good thread regarding this. I'm not sure that I got all the technical parts of what Is going on there right, but that's my mediocre hillbilly interpretation of it.
This is the way I understand it......
If you add the kalkwasser near the intake of your skimmer, then the localized generally higher concentration of the limewater will "bond" to certain elements in the water. Because it has a higher concentration of calcium carbonate, there will be a small precipitation of these. Causing them then to be skimmed out. But I don't believe that even if it does anything with the nitrates, you would have a noticeable amount of decrease. Someone on here had a good thread regarding this. I'm not sure that I got all the technical parts of what Is going on there right, but that's my mediocre hillbilly interpretation of it.
ninjamini
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Originally Posted by ViPeR_930
Yes kalkwasser can reduce phosphates. The higher pH of the kalk precipitates phosphates out of the water.
If it precipitates out of the water then its still in the tank. So its kinda like having algae in the tank 0 phosphates but there is still phosphates in there????
Yes kalkwasser can reduce phosphates. The higher pH of the kalk precipitates phosphates out of the water.
If it precipitates out of the water then its still in the tank. So its kinda like having algae in the tank 0 phosphates but there is still phosphates in there????
jonthefishguy
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Kalkwasser also tends to make your skimmer work a bit harder and remove it excess waste before it becomes a problem.