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Putting the puzzle pieces of this entire conversation together - are you seeing anything at all novel?
Novel is quite a strong word, and since there have been plenty of folks over the years who dosed alk all at once in the am, and many of them likely used bicarbonate, so no, I have not seen anything novel.
I don’t really know what is being compared to bolus dosing or what is being assessed in such comparisons, but think it likely that higher alk and higher pH do lead to faster hard coral calcification. I simply think It unlikely that bolus dosing of bicarbonate is the best way to attain higher alk and it certainly isn’t the most efficient way to boost pH with an alk additive.
IMO, this is like an experiment with no control. In that sense it is impossible to interpret. I give a can of Coke to 37 cancer patients, and all are still alive at the end of the test. Do I publish this treatment?