Soda lime use to remove CO2 from protein skimmer air intake

[MasterBlaster]

Hello,

I am looking for advice and information related to soda lime use. I have linked my skimmer (Nyos 120) to the ATI Carbo EX (reactor with 3 kg soda lime). I am a bit afraid that the soda lime dust might end up in the aquarium. Also I am interested in any advice you can give me related to soda lime use. I decided on this approach as my tank PH is constantly low because of CO2 in the room. It seems that to maintain PH at around 8 I needed to open the windows a few times a day.



Thanks

[tropicreef]

Hi Mihai,

Soda lime is a mixture of NaOH, Ca(OH)₂ and CaCl₂ chemicals, i wrote about here in the forum.

What kind of carbonat supplement to you actually use?

[MasterBlaster]

Hi Mihai,

Soda lime is a mixture of NaOH, Ca(OH)₂ and CaCl₂ chemicals, i wrote about here in the forum.

What kind of carbonat supplement to you actually use?

Currently I am only dosing manually Sangokai basic + Iodine(TM Lugol) and Iron (all manually). I am waiting to get an automatic doser before I start 3 part dosing. Right now I do water changes every 2 weeks to cover the tank needs which is ok as I don't have a lot of corals. My alkalinity is around 8.5; No3 <= 0.5 ;PO <=0.03 ; Redox 360 and increasing ;salinity around 35. Hopefully with the Soda lime addition the Ph will not rise above 8.3. I have added the soda like more than 15 hours ago and the ph has not stopped rising.