Raising ph

[King98]

Can I use baking soda to raise my ph level, and if i can, how do you do it

 

[Zante]

By dissolving a certain amount in water. It depends how high you want to go though, sodium bicarbonate has a limit, after that you have to consider other chemicals.

 

[DoubleDutch]

What fish are you going to keep?


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[Byron]

Agree, we need to know the background. What is your GH, KH and pH of the source water (tap or well), and what fish? The GH/KH is related to pH so changing the pH may have to involve GH/KH depending what it now is.

To the sodium bicarbonate, this is sometimes suggested to increase pH but it is not a good method. As Dr. Stanley Weitzman wrote some years back in a series of article in TFH, it has no permanent buffering capacity, and the continual increase of sodium creates real problems for many fish, especially soft water species.

Byron.