My alk dipped to 3.8 but I'm working on bringing it up thank God I cau...

Joey

@joey1 · há 10 meses

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.

Ajuda #alk issue #low alkalinity #parameter swing

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@Radiant_Shelf_13 308d

That clownfish looks happy despite the alk drop! Keep pushing that alk up!

@joey1 308d

Thanks man I've had him for 5 years he's moved three times with me over 200 miles haha

@hardcorn77 308d

Did you double check it? That’s insanely low

@joey1 308d

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 308d

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 307d

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 307d

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 307d

Yes 8-10 dkh I'm going to buy another test kit tomorrow

@joey1 307d

Dosing alkalinity only by .5 dkh per day till I get back to the 8s

@hardcorn77 307d

Good stuff… post up when you figure out what went wrong I’m super curious

@hardcorn77 308d

What was your salinity at?

@joey1 308d

1.026

@joey1 306d

Just posted an update on here

@walker_92 307d

good catch man keep grinding!

@joey1 306d

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