Barr's GH booster?

[krap101]

So.. I've been mixing this with some other stuff for awhile, and I've thought I've been mixing it wrong, and its been precipitating, but I just tried mixing it with distilled water, and it still fell out, so am I doing something wrong or is it supposed to settle out?

 

[fort384]

hmm, if it is precipitating then it is not raising your GH... what is your GH and what is your goal?

 

[krap101]

Well, I have a water softener, so that means that I shouldn't have any of the hard water. The the gh booster is either precipitating or just clumping up when I mix with distilled water, so it seems like it's not doing much. I'm just trying to replace the stuff the softener takes out.

 

[jsoong]

The stuff that is not dissolving in Barr's GH booster is Ca SO4 <The other stuff is Mg SO4 & K2 SO4, both soluble.>

I have not use Barr's booster, so can't speak of it first hand, but I would expect it to behave like Ca CO3. It takes a while for that to dissolve ... and there is an upper limit to how much can dissolve in.

I would try letting it sit for 48 hrs & test your GH to see if anything changes. The amount that can dissolve in is pH dependent, but if you use distill water, you should see a GH increase.

BTW, instead of adding stuff to your softened water, why not just mix in some water before the softener?

 

[krap101]

Sadly.. it would be due to laziness/room. To by pass the softener I'd need to use the hose, and the water gets pretty cold, meaning I'd need a container to hold/heat the water.