Lowering water pH with vitamin C!?!?

ThatGuy1985 said:

oh and thanks for the links seamaiden it's always good to find a good backup plan and you can always send me a private message if you wanna chat about our little under the sea friends lol

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Are you sure? I tend to geek out pretty damn hard on the fishes.

Home PH adjustment is fine. Many items do the trick. However as noted by folks most are not stable. Vitamin C is. If you are going to use ascorbic acid, Vitamin C get PURE crystals. Never cause a problem. People buy cheap vitamins with tons of binders and crap you don't want or need. Spend a few bucks and feed your immune system while you adjust your ladies PH. For human health SLOWLY increase dosage well beyond recommendations. Serum level goes way up, keeping you healthy with great skin. Can't OD like other Vitamins. Body flushes not stores extra. So raise dose slowly to get best health results. I do 20,000 units a day huge benefits!

I checked with Kelp-4-Less on E-Bay and they sell ph lowering vitamin C powder. Plants can use the benefits of the vitamin C... as well as lowering ph. Grow on !

I tried using Earth Juice Natural pH Down, which uses citric acid, and had a real hard time balancing my soup. It also caused foam, and had a funky smell after a day.

JSB99 said:

I tried using Earth Juice Natural pH Down, which uses citric acid, and had a real hard time balancing my soup. It also caused foam, and had a funky smell after a day.

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I have used Earth Juice ph down and I believe the smell is vinegar. I also had foam and found it was the fish I was using in the tea. If I use fish now I add it just before I serve it. Fish does lower the ph quite a bit. As far as keeping a consistent ph , I had no problems.

You can lower the PH pretty effectively with Vitamin C, one of the better things about it is it will dechlorinate and dichloramine your water for you as well. I can crush up a 500mg pill and it will take my PH from 9.2 down to 6.5. in 5 gal of water. been doing this the last month or so

Aolelon said:

You can lower the PH pretty effectively with Vitamin C, one of the better things about it is it will dechlorinate and dichloramine your water for you as well. I can crush up a 500mg pill and it will take my PH from 9.2 down to 6.5. in 5 gal of water. been doing this the last month or so

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Great Info... I use food grade powdered vitamin C and it works great !

Zen707 said:

Great Info... I use food grade powdered vitamin C and it works great !

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Yea, the main reason I use it is to get rid of the chloramines in my water. It's probably the most cost effective way to do it. Happens in a matter of minutes as well.

Aolelon said:

Yea, the main reason I use it is to get rid of the chloramines in my water. It's probably the most cost effective way to do it. Happens in a matter of minutes as well.

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Cool...I'm on well water and have ph of 8.2 and take it to 6.4 with about a 1/2 cup of C powder in 550gal.
Kelp for less sells 1lb of C powder for 11.95 delivered. I had stored some rain water with a ph of 7.0 of course...and it only took a table spoon for 550gal of water.

Hi guys
Could y please send some pics from your Vitamin C sources ?
I mean tablets or ...

neved said:

Hi guys
Could y please send some pics from your Vitamin C sources ?
I mean tablets or ...

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I just bought some white vitamin c tablets from the dollar store, with the least ingredients possible. There are sources online you can get pure asorbic acid powder/crystals.

Aolelon said:

I just bought some white vitamin c tablets from the dollar store, with the least ingredients possible. There are sources online you can get pure asorbic acid powder/crystals.

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Ever try fine grandular citric acid?

AnimalMother1974 said:

Ever try fine grandular citric acid?

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I havent