Rogerscody17
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What can I do? Water change? Top off water? Add a dose of calcium? Should I buy some API PH UP solution?
Ph 7.4!! Please help
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Rogerscody17
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Sorry,
75 gallon reef tank, 1.3 years, 3 snails died last week, my fire shrimp is still alive, my clownfish is up at the top of the tank floating but sleeping, my red coarse wrasse is hiding I hope. Lighting.. 2xfull spectrum led fixtures. 50lbs of live rock 70 pounds of dry rock but it's cycled. Fx6 filter, no sump or refugium.
Rogerscody17
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Ph tested with a kit. Note that it was tested for high rang ph.
Reefvet
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Test kits for pH are pretty inaccurate and really not recommended. A pH as low as 7.8 if fine and your test kit probably has at least that much error.
Is there a LFS that you could take a water sample to and have them check it. Even if they use a test kit it will at least be a second reference.
Other than loosing snails, which could be because they just starved, have you had problems ?
Is there a LFS that you could take a water sample to and have them check it. Even if they use a test kit it will at least be a second reference.
Other than loosing snails, which could be because they just starved, have you had problems ?
Rogerscody17
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Thanks for your reply, I will do that first thing Tommorow morning, also will inspect the wrasse that I put in there yesterday.
About the snails, I think it's when I stirred the sand up a bit redoing my rocks
Water changes are also not the way to deal with real pH issues when they arise.
This has more:
Low pH: Causes and Cures
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-09/rhf/index.htm
This has more:
Low pH: Causes and Cures
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-09/rhf/index.htm
