- Raises carbonate alkalinity (KH).
- Concentrated (4,000 meq/L).
- Made with a blend of carbonate and bicarbonate salts.
Overview:Reef
Carbonate is a concentrated (4,000 meq/L) optimized blend of carbonate
and bicarbonate salts designed to restore and maintain alkalinity in the
reef aquarium. Calcium and carbonates are essential to all coral
growth. If either becomes deficient, coral growth will cease, followed
by a rapid decline in coral health. To prevent this you must provide
carbonates (Reef Carbonate) and calcium (Reef Advantage Calcium or Reef
Complete).
Whereas
competing products simply use sodium bicarbonate, Reef Carbonate is
made with a blend of carbonate and bicarbonate salts. This blend of
salts results in Reef Carbonate yielding a pK of roughly 9.0 in
saltwater (higher than competing products). In a closed reef system, the
multitude of organics produced by reef inhabitants tends to force pH
downward, but the advantage of Reef Carbonate’s higher pK is a
stabilization of pH around 8.3-8.4. Competing products’ formulations
make them incapable of such a claim, so pH will always fall below
desirable levels for a reef aquarium.
Used
as directed, Reef Carbonate will not deplete calcium, magnesium, or
strontium which usually tend to precipitate with increasing alkalinity.
Reef alkalinity should be maintained at 3–6 meq/L (8–17 dKH). Alkalinity
should not be allowed to fall below 2 meq/L.
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