Around the end of June, my Alk hit 6.2, so I got my Calc reactor up and running. Read up on the web and talked to my local shop about integrating it into the Apex system. The advice I got was to set the PH in the calc reactor at about 6.5....ok, set the CO2 to come on at anything above 6.56 and off at 6.5. Was also told to set the calc pump (drip into the tank) to turn on when the PH in the tank was over 8.0 and off at anything below that. Set that up, and by the 4th Alk was at 9.8...everything was looking good...but by the 10th Alk was off the chart, best I could figure was around 14.5! So now I'm out of range and reading that a high Alk can wipe out your inverts....so I dialed the drip volume back. I'm great about my water changes...every week, 10%. Then around the 11th, my PH in the tank started climbing and tonight I find my ph at 8.51....officially out of ideal range.
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So should I be freaking out? everything looks happy....help me understand what drives PH up? Any educated advice would be most appreciated!
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So should I be freaking out? everything looks happy....help me understand what drives PH up? Any educated advice would be most appreciated!