plantnoobdude
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HI, i plan on making my own dc solution, but i want to aim for 45 ppm. at the moment my drop checker is a nice yellow color through out the photo period and that isn't very useful information.
i'm using wikipedia as a source for my 'math'
"An aqueous solution containing 120 mg NaHCO3 (baking soda) per litre of water will contain 1.4285 mmol/l of bicarbonate, since the molar mass of baking soda is 84.007 g/mol. This is equivalent in carbonate hardness to a solution containing 0.71423 mmol/L of (calcium) carbonate, or 71.485 mg/l of calcium carbonate (molar mass 100.09 g/mol). Since one degree KH = 17.848 mg/L CaCO3, this solution has a KH of 4.0052 degrees."
I want to aim for 6dkh, therefore i multiply 120x1.5 is that correct?
so 180mg/l
I plan on dilluting 1.8g in 1l of rodi water.
giving me 1800mg/l
and dillute that by a factor of ten.
with 10ml of the 60dkh solution and 90ml of rodi water.
does this plan sound good? have i gone horribly wrong somewhere in my my calculations? thanks for reading.
cheers, plant noob
i'm using wikipedia as a source for my 'math'
Carbonate hardness - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I want to aim for 6dkh, therefore i multiply 120x1.5 is that correct?
so 180mg/l
I plan on dilluting 1.8g in 1l of rodi water.
giving me 1800mg/l
and dillute that by a factor of ten.
with 10ml of the 60dkh solution and 90ml of rodi water.
does this plan sound good? have i gone horribly wrong somewhere in my my calculations? thanks for reading.
cheers, plant noob
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