anybody just give up on ph?!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8949745#post8949745 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Victoria
Hey Mammoth
Sorry to here you are still having a ph problem. What is you alk, ca run at? Mag?. What is the ph in your new salt water? There is a test to do for indoor co2... Take a cup a tank water and airate it for an hour with outside air, If the ph goes up its indoor co2.
Hey I need to borrow that fish trap if I could??
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I don't recall my alk off hand have to check again, but I checked my Calk the other nite and i'm right around 420-440.

I believe lance has the fish trap. I'll try to get it back from him.
 
pH will equalize with the CO2 in your house. You can add all the buffer you want, come back the next day and it will be right back where it was. I was running about 8.2 when I was using kalk, but with my CaRx I'm running right around 8. As long as it remains relatively constant, I dont believe it's an issue.
 
Also, open your windows one day if you get a warm day and turn some ceiling fans on...through last summer i had 8.15 at night and 8.32 during the day.....this winter when no one was going in and out and the air was getting staler in the house i couldnt get over 8.18...new years day i had people over and it was warm so i opened all the windows up and turn fans on and BAM...back to where it was

just a thought......try it
 
hehe thats not gonna happen any time soon :( in the low teens right now...i'm going to try moving my skimmer into the garage.
 
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well...that went bad.. really bad.. pump wire got caught in door...skimmer... fell out of hands...trying to glue it back together again :(
 
my ph stays 7.8-7.9 for 4 years w/ no problems. as long as it's stable and stays above 7.7, u should be fine...
 
I run my skimmer air line outside, and that marginally helped maybe went from a 8.0 to about 8.15. But it will depend a lot on how much air your skiimer will pull vs the amount of water. I have heard other people say it helped almost .2
 
Don't worry about pH, it's going to do what it's going to do, mostly as a result of what your CO2 levels in your home are. Everything else is a temporary fix with the exception of the skimmer. If you have a high volume skimmer (beckett or downdraft) pulling air from outside that will do a lot of blow off excess CO2. As long as your alk is fine 7-8 dkh, don't worry about pH. It's one of those params that are inherently instable (even on the reefs).
 
i had the same problem with my ph. i couldn't get it above 8.0 after i started running a Ca reactor. even after i started dripping kalk 24/7. then it just fixed itself. now i generally don't go below 8.0 at night so. i agree with everybody. if everything looks good and is growing with good color, just fagitaboudit! it'll work it's way out.
 
well.. I super glued my skimmer back together..had to use piece of a yogurt cup to patch some wholes up.. (uh..) It works but leaks a little..but...I took a look @ my ph this morning 7.94..

Now the problem is because I put the skimmer in my garage, i had to pull back a flap on of insulation on my sump, and my tank temp tropped 2 degrees @ nite.
 
trying to get everything as stable and consistant as possible, unforuntlenty the highest i can get my temp (without popping a fuse lol) is 78.2..so this morning I woke up and it was 75.7 which in my op is pretty low. I have another 800w heater that i'm gonna try to put in off a diffrent fuse but I will have to put it on a reverse timer w/my lights so I don't pop that breaker ;)

What i'm worried about is we are supposed to drop into the single digits and -0's this up coming week so if i don't get the heat in check..
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8953517#post8953517 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Victoria
When it rains it pours... or snows and gets really cold. Let us know how it goes?? Yea just open a window..LOL
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Very true..but hey there is a rainbow @ the end of this storm.. I sucked it up and ordered that skimmer I've been wanting.. Now I just need to figure out how to properly fix the old skimmer so I can at least use it for ozone without melting the yogurt cup pieces I used to patch the holes hahaha.

Once I get the new skimmer in the sump Ill be able to cut the insulation to fit around it and re-seal that sump..

Btw do we get Saturday delivery in Mammoth / Crowley?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8953504#post8953504 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MammothReefer
trying to get everything as stable and consistant as possible, unforuntlenty the highest i can get my temp (without popping a fuse lol) is 78.2..so this morning I woke up and it was 75.7 which in my op is pretty low. I have another 800w heater that i'm gonna try to put in off a diffrent fuse but I will have to put it on a reverse timer w/my lights so I don't pop that breaker ;)

What i'm worried about is we are supposed to drop into the single digits and -0's this up coming week so if i don't get the heat in check..
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Sure, but you have to remember that on the reefs there is a fair amount of variability in temperatures. If anything, you're on the safe side of the equation, if it got too warm, you'd be concerned about a more real issue, the dissolved oxygen levels fall as the water gets warmer. Stability is good, but when certain params normally fluctuate on the reefs, why worry about them. It sounds like you've got the downside covered with the additional heater for this weekends cooler weather whcih is good, but don't stress about 2.5 degree difference. Now if you were talk a swing from 84 to 86 degree that's a different story :)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8954823#post8954823 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by stony_corals
Sure, but you have to remember that on the reefs there is a fair amount of variability in temperatures. If anything, you're on the safe side of the equation, if it got too warm, you'd be concerned about a more real issue, the dissolved oxygen levels fall as the water gets warmer. Stability is good, but when certain params normally fluctuate on the reefs, why worry about them. It sounds like you've got the downside covered with the additional heater for this weekends cooler weather whcih is good, but don't stress about 2.5 degree difference. Now if you were talk a swing from 84 to 86 degree that's a different story :)
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ya, I hear that. I've just (for the first time) been trying to be very picky about my parameters.. and it's really paying off, of all the tanks i've kept in the passed 5-6 years or so this one is by far the most succesfull in terms of visible growth, quickness of coluration, and life expenentinecy..I've only had a couple corlals give me trouble since I set it up *knock on wood*
 
If you can get your pH up, you will enjoy better growth. But getting it there is the problem, and fiddling too much could cause more harm than good. I'd let it be if everything is doing good.
 
Well I went home @ lunch today and i'm up to a solid 8.. soo moving the now FrankenSkimmer to the garage seems to have worked.. can't wait to see what happens when I get the new skimmer and i'm pulling in 4 times the air.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8947583#post8947583 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by murphreef
i also started adding Kalk to my top off water... about 2 teaspons to a 15 gallon container and it rose that top off water to 11.5ph but even with topping off with kalk water it still hasnt healped much
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If you're dripping that, you should add at least 30 teaspoons to it. Try that, you may have much better luck.
 
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