Pukani Dry Rock: To Clean or Not?
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I've been following fly's advice too on this, Costco has some arm and hammer baking soda, 13.5lbs for like $5.50. I've yet to mine. Waiting till about a month before the tank is ready to acid bath.
I also went with the EMarco cement. $49.99 for 10lb kit. Heard some wonderous things about this stuff...like gravity defying matrix stuff.....
Personally, after reading on different ways to do this, acid does seem to give me an piece of mind, cheapest too. Is that grave to shallow? What if it floats back up? You sure your dogs can eat that much? Acid? Yeah I'm good.
I also went with the EMarco cement. $49.99 for 10lb kit. Heard some wonderous things about this stuff...like gravity defying matrix stuff.....
Personally, after reading on different ways to do this, acid does seem to give me an piece of mind, cheapest too. Is that grave to shallow? What if it floats back up? You sure your dogs can eat that much? Acid? Yeah I'm good.
baking soda does neutralize acid, it works on bad car batteries that have cracked and leaked .....I use to be a chef and they use it in the industry in baking for chemical reactions such as helping bread and cakes to rise, just like baking soda so it is a scientific fact that baking soda neutralizes acids....
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True. Didn't read the OP lol.
The more the better.
If you want to go into the calculations, get the molarity and the volume of acid you're using then use those numbers to find out how much sodium bicarbonate to use to completely neutralize the acid. You also need to make a stock solution of sodium bicarbonate. I'd choose 1.5 Molarity of sodium bicarbonate.
Maybe m1v1=m2v2 is a good equation to start off with.
You have molarity of 1 (acid) and molarity of 2 (sodium bicarbonate solution), u just need to figure out the volume of v2 (sodium bicarbonate solution) to use which is dependent on Volume 1 (acid used)
If it wasn't for the chemist in me, I'd just get 3 huge boxes of Arm and Hammer and toss it all in your bath. Maybe even a 4th box.
The more the better.
If you want to go into the calculations, get the molarity and the volume of acid you're using then use those numbers to find out how much sodium bicarbonate to use to completely neutralize the acid. You also need to make a stock solution of sodium bicarbonate. I'd choose 1.5 Molarity of sodium bicarbonate.
Maybe m1v1=m2v2 is a good equation to start off with.
You have molarity of 1 (acid) and molarity of 2 (sodium bicarbonate solution), u just need to figure out the volume of v2 (sodium bicarbonate solution) to use which is dependent on Volume 1 (acid used)
If it wasn't for the chemist in me, I'd just get 3 huge boxes of Arm and Hammer and toss it all in your bath. Maybe even a 4th box.
