PH is low?

[Dj.dale]

Neither the salt mix nor water changes will affect the pH level, assuming the alkalinity level remains in the acceptable zone. If the pH measurement is correct, the issue is carbon dioxide. Running a refugium on a reverse-lit schedule might help with the pH during the night. Other than that, adding a large room-level carbon dioxide scrubber or air exchanger would be the most likely approaches that could help, although they are a fair amount of expense and trouble.

Already tried the Co2 Scrubber . Right now have air intake coming in from outside to skimmer .


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[kenneth wolfe]

Your ph is not low, your ph probe is acting up.you confirmed that with your test kit, alk is high because not enough critters uptakeing enough to keep the levels from climbing, if a salt mix that started at 8 in your current set up it would be at 10, nothing wrong with 10, slowing evaporation will also bring it down,

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[Dj.dale]

Your ph is not low, your ph probe is acting up.you confirmed that with your test kit, alk is high because not enough critters uptakeing enough to keep the levels from climbing, if a salt mix that started at 8 in your current set up it would be at 10, nothing wrong with 10, slowing evaporation will also bring it down,

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Yeah I know just weird that when I put probe in the solution it reads correctly . I even put probe up in the display and still reads low like it does in the sump . I need to get alk down now that it is way up there as well the calcium and mag ugh the Kalk really messed my parameters up


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[Dj.dale]

Thanks so much for your time !! Curious what is the best way to lower my alk , cal and mag ?


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[kenneth wolfe]

Yeah I know just weird that when I put probe in the solution it reads correctly . I even put probe up in the display and still reads low like it does in the sump . I need to get alk down now that it is way up there as well the calcium and mag ugh the Kalk really messed my parameters up


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Get some clams , your not super high, you need something to help consume it, take the reactor off line until levels go down , nothing in there looks mad, go buy a few good clams then put it back on line test again see how much it gains or loses if it gains add another something clams are great in helping tanks on kalk with no hard corals.

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[Dj.dale]

I'm currently not dosing nothing


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[Dj.dale]

I'm really high right now Cal 500 , alk 13, mag 1580


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[kenneth wolfe]

It also seems a little out of balance with the 500 cal, and 12dkh , 1550 mag, how are you supplementing mag? How much Cheri and lighting in huge , send some pics of all your stuff, got me interested..

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[kenneth wolfe]

It also seems a little out of balance with the 500 cal, and 12dkh , 1550 mag, how are you supplementing mag? How much Cheri and lighting in huge , send some pics of all your stuff, got me interested..

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13 sorry is even more out of balance, I would have to look it up but believe cal should be much higher, 1550 mag ok..leave it , how are you checking salinity is it possible that your just high there, maybe calibration? Do you use calibration solution with refractor meter atc?

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[Dj.dale]

Using bubble Magnus doser T 101


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[kenneth wolfe]

And kalk reactor?

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[Dj.dale]

No Kalk reactor . I was dosing Kalk through my ato


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[kenneth wolfe]

So a bucket type system? For the ato? Then the doser was adding what? Mag?What was on the doser?

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[Dj.dale]

Yeah ato in a 32 gallon drum my doser is dosing mag Cal alk but nothing dosing now until levels go down


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[Dj.dale]

When I was dosing Kalk I wasn't dosing Cal or alk or mag


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[bertoni]

Already tried the Co2 Scrubber . Right now have air intake coming in from outside to skimmer .

You would have to have a very large unit, basically large enough to scrub the house or at least the part of the house that has air circulating into the tank room. A small unit like the one shown won't do it.

 

[kenneth wolfe]

Ok , that explains why it's so out of ballance , keep dosing mag the way you was , maybe back it off a little, 1500-1700 not high imo, it will come down on it's own, when's next scheduled water change?

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[kenneth wolfe]

Witch was last and how much of all was you adding?

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[Dj.dale]

Doing water change again tomorrow . Mag should be around 1350 normal range . Mine is over 1580


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[kenneth wolfe]

Doing water change again tomorrow . Mag should be around 1350 normal range . Mine is over 1580


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1500 not high, just saying, your macro algae likes it, few hundred over is nothing with mag, I have run over 1800-2000 to burn out some unwanted algae.

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