Seachem Marine Buffer 250g Review

Great price. Works well. When your PH is perfect, dose again, stop and watch. Just throwing it up all the time until it hurts, muddies the water that won't clear.

Used for my marine aquarium. The problem was that when I received it the cap was removed from the bottle and it spilled into the packaging. Since it was itself in bubble wrap, I was able to pour all of the powder back into the bottle. Mary Pendergrass mkpend@sbcglobal.net

This product does what it says on the tin, I had to dose 3 times to get the right pH but then resorted to adjusting the return nozzle to make it break the surface tension of the water to exchange CO2, which is a much better way to raise the pH. This pH buffer will also increase your dKh levels as it is associated with an increase in pH so be careful with that.

I've found that it's best to raise the pH in freshwater tanks that have gotten too low. I have had many freshwater aquariums and am a fish biologist with 40 years of experience raising tropical and native freshwater fish. Any decomposing material ie plant matter, waste etc will lower the pH of your aquarium. Even when changing the water, it is not enough to raise the pH value back to at least 7. There is always some fish droppings etc. left in gravel, nooks and crannies, which lowers the pH of…