Lowering water ph.

[stawawager]

What do you use to lower your water ph?

How much of it do you use to lower it from where to where?

 

[StareCase]

... What do you use to lower your water ph? ...

85% Phosphoric Acid to lower it.

Use a pH pen to tell me when I am at 6.0 to 6.1 for Pro Mix HP.

 

[Hobbes]

My ph starts in the high seventies and with 48 drops of ph down (in 4 gallons of tap water) the ph is lowered to 6.5.

 

[stawawager]

I use 14 drops of hydrochloric per gallon to drop it to 6.2. My tester is probably due for a recalibration after 3 years of non-use.

 

[coreywebster]

I use two pipettes of 85% phosphoric acid in 20ltr of water to take it from 6.8 to 6ish

 

[teddyearp]

I use 14 drops of hydrochloric per gallon to drop it to 6.2. My tester is probably due for a recalibration after 3 years of non-use.

Just curious. Is this true hydrochloric or are you using muriatic?

Me, I make my own pH down with battery acid diluted in distilled water.

 

[stawawager]

Just curious. Is this true hydrochloric or are you using muriatic?

Me, I make my own pH down with battery acid diluted in distilled water.

Pure hydrochloric. Why do you dilute yours with distilled water?

 

[teddyearp]

Pure hydrochloric. Why do you dilute yours with distilled water?

Honestly, because I'm getting clutzy in my old age, so it's a little safer. Just gotta really be good the once in a while when making my 'stuff'. Hehe.

 

[Billy the Mountain]

Sulfuric acid is much more economical than buying GH pH down.
It's roughly 2-3x more potent than GH pH down and significantly less expensive per quart at the same time.
I recently paid ~$10 for a quart at my local auto parts store.
A little goes a long way.

 

[teddyearp]

Sulfuric acid is much more economical than buying GH pH down.
It's roughly 2-3x more potent than GH pH down and significantly less expensive per quart at the same time.
I recently paid ~$10 for a quart at my local auto parts store.
A little goes a long way.

For all I know it was one of your posts that turned me on to the idea, lol. I read about it here. $10 at the auto parts store for a qt. Makes about two gallons of 'diy' pHdown.

Thx.

 

[stawawager]

Honestly, because I'm getting clutzy in my old age, so it's a little safer. Just gotta really be good the once in a while when making my 'stuff'. Hehe.

Yea, it's a time to be careful. I ways carefully fill up my dropper bottle over the sink. I don't like muratic because I had some stored in their original containers and the sweated or gased and destroyed and nearby metal.

 

[Aeroknow]

For all I know it was one of your posts that turned me on to the idea, lol. I read about it here. $10 at the auto parts store for a qt. Makes about two gallons of 'diy' pHdown.

Thx.

I don’t even dilute it. That makes it super weak IMO.