My alk dipped to 3.8 but I'm working on bringing it up thank God I caught it early. Mostly softies with a few lps.
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@hardcorn77
150d
Did you double check it? That’s insanely low
@joey1
150d
Yes I double checked but I'm going to check today on a fresh batch of salt water to see if my testing is off
@hardcorn77
150d
If it’s true then you are going to want to slowly bring it up. Small water changes daily or start dosing soda ash. It’s crazy because I don’t really see anything in your system that would suck it up like that. How low is your ph?
@joey1
150d
Just tested my reef crystals and it was showing 6.4 dkh I'm guessing I either have a bad batch of salt or my test kit salifert alk is wrong
@hardcorn77
150d
Ya something’s a miss… that stuff normally has a really high alk reading right? What ever you end up using to bring it back just do it slowly.
@joey1
150d
Yes 8-10 dkh I'm going to buy another test kit tomorrow
@joey1
150d
Dosing alkalinity only by .5 dkh per day till I get back to the 8s
@hardcorn77
150d
Good stuff… post up when you figure out what went wrong I’m super curious
@hardcorn77
150d
What was your salinity at?
@joey1
150d
1.026
@joey1
149d
Just posted an update on here
@SandyShelf15
150d
good catch man keep grinding!
@joey1
149d
Update: my salifert alk test was defective. I tested it on a fresh batch of saltwater and it was still low 6.4 instead of 9 dkh. The Hanna reader tested my water at 7dkh
@hardcorn77
148d
That makes for sense because everything looked great in your tank to have an alk reading that low.
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That clownfish looks happy despite the alk drop! Keep pushing that alk up!
Thanks man I've had him for 5 years he's moved three times with me over 200 miles haha