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Explained:
“Why two part dosing (calcium and sodium Bi-carbonate), three part systems (calcium and sodium Bi-carbonate, with just magnesium), or “balling light” is not the same as the Hans-Werner Balling system made by Tropic Marin.
The important part is learning about the relationship between the ions of calcium chloride and sodium Bi-carbonate. It’s important when dosing minerals into a delicate system and learning especially how the coral polyp takes in the calcium ion from the calcium chloride element, and the carbonate ion from the sodium element, and what’s left behind is “UNBALANCED SODIUM CHLORIDE”. In the balling light or two/three part system THIS is where your imbalance comes from.
Left behind is sodium from the Bi-carbonate and chloride from the calcium, these two together of course make sodium chloride, and here lies the imbalance in two part, all of a sudden there’s extra sodium chloride with no other elements attached to it floating around in your tank. AND by doing a water change, you are only removing the percentage of that water change of the imbalance.
So, if you are dosing two/three or light systems and rely on water changes alone to address the imbalance, and say only removing 10% of the water, only 10% of the imbalance is removed.
Now, by adding into the mix part C of the Balling Method, the remaining sodium chloride has something to balance it, which includes the 70 trace elements.
Of course, there’s an argument which this system too raises the sodium chloride level, and yes this is correct, BUT here’s the defining factor. It’s doing it in a balanced format in the same way like just adding more sea salt to the system. It’s balanced, so there’s no ionic risks. Even the most minimal water change would cater to any salinity rise. However, due to sodium chloride being in balance and at such a very low level, this is not an issue. Oppose to as an unbalanced system with just sodium chloride floating about is.
What’s an issue, are two part or light systems allow for free amounts of sodium chloride in the system with nothing to balance it, allowing for a complete imbalance, which cannot be addressed fully by water changes. A % water change only removes a % of the imbalance.
There’s only one way to keep a system in balance when dosing calcium and sodium Bi-carbonate and that’s to add in proportion NACL free salt. (Part C)
To make the point more clear, the very first original Sea Salt mix from Tropic marin, which still to this day forms the basis of all their salts, is a 100% mixture of A B and C of the Tropic Marin Balling system together!
So there’s no argument the chemistry in itself proves it. If dosing a system with nothing to balance the excess NACL, it create an imbalance. This is where part C of Balling comes in, which makes up everything found in a sea salt mix, including all trace elements without adding additional NACL. Hence the term for part C as NACL-FREE sea salt. Lets be clear part C is not just magnesium as in every other other 3 part system, it is the whole bells and whistles found in sea salt as stated before WITHOUT any NACL component.”