i had been using a brand new stainless steel scraping tool that was not workign well at all.
sunday, i removed my livestock and 90% of the water and went to work with a razor blade. al the caked baking soda came off with a little effort. put most of the water back and topped off with five...
i am just a newby so do not take my advice as golden. however, at the least you need to read my recent post just to see what can go wrong by adding "just baking soda"
http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=52040
any decent pet store should sell "buffer". try that instead. i am never using...
maybe i will just remove some water, all the critters and rock so i can do soem heavy duty scraping. scrape off as much as i can and then add everything back...
i will skip the vinegar and leave the sand intact to keep it from getting too messy
looks like i wil be spending my weekend doing some heavy maintenance.
i am going to drain 75% of my water into a container along with the crabs, shrimp and live rock. the remaining water i will add a minimal amoutn of vinegar to help break down the baking soda. then start scraping.
once i get...
i have already changed 3 gallons. its only a 40 gallon salt water so i will probably try to do 2-3 gallons every day or two
what affect will vinegar have on my Ph and my current live residents? (crabs, shrimp, and live rock?)
i added baking soda to my tank to try and raise alkilinity/Ph. evidently i over-buffered and now i have baking soda cakign to the walls!!!
i have a stainless steel scarping tool but even that is not getting it to come off easily.
is there anything i can add to make it easy to remove/dissolve...
