How much phosphate can dissolve in a saturated lime solution

daveandcole · #1 10/13/2004, 10:22 AM

The ph of the solution is 12, and as calcium phosphate precipitates calcium hydroxide is not limiting.

Randy Holmes-Farley · #2 10/13/2004, 03:13 PM

There will be be virtually no phosphate present. Certainly none that would be significant for a reef aquarium. Craig Bingman showed this experimentally once a long time ago in the print version of Aquarium Frontiers, but I do not have it handy.

Randy Holmes-Farley · #3 10/13/2004, 04:01 PM

This is the article:

Precipitation of phosphate in limewater and in the aquarium by Craig Bingman, Aquarium Frontiers, 2(4) 6-9. 1995