sromero287
Valuable Member
Hi R2R'fers happy holidays everyone out there, all the best for u all, please need help with my Apex.
My tank it's been running for a year, apparently looks great and all the corals are doing great with growth, color and polyps extension, the Apex is running in my system for six months with no problems,bought it from a close friend (only owner and never any issue) once i got it the Ph readings was perfectly normal in between 8.0 to 8.4 but three months ago i did a re-calibration and was showing 7 on the 7.0 solution and 10.00 on the 10 solution but once in the water was showing 7.4 to 7.7 no higher so I tough it was just a matter of minutes and leave it alone, next day was 7.5 and never came up for the last three months but my corals were great and my tangs all happy and eating like pigs. A week ago ordered a Lab grade Ph probe from BRS and the two calibration fluids 7 and 10, did all the steps slow, one by one and finally was calibrated showing 7.01/ 7.00 on the 7 solution and solid 10.00 on the 10 solution i said perfect finally its calibrated then I placed in the sump in my apex probes holder and guess what? 10 minutes after again to 7.45 - 7.50, additional im using a tube line from outside from my house to a TLF reactor with CO2 absorption media then to the skimmer!!!!!
I gave upppp!!!!!! I don't get it, but don't want to star adding all kind of solutions like kalkwasser, balance or any other thing because everything looks just great! What am I supposed to do? Maybe Apex fault? Two faulty probes? Do my system runs with that lowwww ph? Im lost, please help!!!
Some info about my tank:
Ph :"7.50"
T: 79-81
Salinity:1,025 on refract using RSM salt blue bucket
Ca: 450 (RSM)
Alk :7.8 (hanna)
Mag: 1440 (RSM)
Nitrates: .10 ppm (salifert)
Phospates : 0.05 (hanna checker)
Only use RO/DI From Melevs Reef RO/DI 0.00 TDS
Dosing: Bubble Magus Master and Slave total 7 pumps: Ca 25 ml/daily RSM A
Alk 22 ml/daily RSM B
Mag 12ml/ daily RSM C
RSM coral colors ABCD 1.5 ml/daily
-85 gallons custom made (120 gal total tank/sump)
-triggersys rubby red sump (35 gallons )
-vertex omega 130
-2 MP-40's, 1 MP-10
-Smart ATO
-ATI dimmable six tubes B+,Act, B+, B+, Act, B+.
-2 Reefbrites (1 xho blue / 1 reg blue)
-Instead of sand I'm using travertine tiles (love it)
-90 pounds of live rock in between display and sump
-mixed reef, SPS dominated
-4 tangs (blue hippo, chevron, purple and yellow)
-six line wrasse (model citizen)
-Sexy shrimps (6) in a Bubble tip Nem
-3 Nem crabs / 3 porcelains
-2 pom pom crabs
-Some emeralds to control bubble algae
Attached are some picts and a video from my system, please any possible advice or comments will be highly appreciated, honestly if can't fix this will leave it like that I'm done, PERIOD!!!!
My tank it's been running for a year, apparently looks great and all the corals are doing great with growth, color and polyps extension, the Apex is running in my system for six months with no problems,bought it from a close friend (only owner and never any issue) once i got it the Ph readings was perfectly normal in between 8.0 to 8.4 but three months ago i did a re-calibration and was showing 7 on the 7.0 solution and 10.00 on the 10 solution but once in the water was showing 7.4 to 7.7 no higher so I tough it was just a matter of minutes and leave it alone, next day was 7.5 and never came up for the last three months but my corals were great and my tangs all happy and eating like pigs. A week ago ordered a Lab grade Ph probe from BRS and the two calibration fluids 7 and 10, did all the steps slow, one by one and finally was calibrated showing 7.01/ 7.00 on the 7 solution and solid 10.00 on the 10 solution i said perfect finally its calibrated then I placed in the sump in my apex probes holder and guess what? 10 minutes after again to 7.45 - 7.50, additional im using a tube line from outside from my house to a TLF reactor with CO2 absorption media then to the skimmer!!!!!
I gave upppp!!!!!! I don't get it, but don't want to star adding all kind of solutions like kalkwasser, balance or any other thing because everything looks just great! What am I supposed to do? Maybe Apex fault? Two faulty probes? Do my system runs with that lowwww ph? Im lost, please help!!!
Some info about my tank:
Ph :"7.50"
T: 79-81
Salinity:1,025 on refract using RSM salt blue bucket
Ca: 450 (RSM)
Alk :7.8 (hanna)
Mag: 1440 (RSM)
Nitrates: .10 ppm (salifert)
Phospates : 0.05 (hanna checker)
Only use RO/DI From Melevs Reef RO/DI 0.00 TDS
Dosing: Bubble Magus Master and Slave total 7 pumps: Ca 25 ml/daily RSM A
Alk 22 ml/daily RSM B
Mag 12ml/ daily RSM C
RSM coral colors ABCD 1.5 ml/daily
-85 gallons custom made (120 gal total tank/sump)
-triggersys rubby red sump (35 gallons )
-vertex omega 130
-2 MP-40's, 1 MP-10
-Smart ATO
-ATI dimmable six tubes B+,Act, B+, B+, Act, B+.
-2 Reefbrites (1 xho blue / 1 reg blue)
-Instead of sand I'm using travertine tiles (love it)
-90 pounds of live rock in between display and sump
-mixed reef, SPS dominated
-4 tangs (blue hippo, chevron, purple and yellow)
-six line wrasse (model citizen)
-Sexy shrimps (6) in a Bubble tip Nem
-3 Nem crabs / 3 porcelains
-2 pom pom crabs
-Some emeralds to control bubble algae
Attached are some picts and a video from my system, please any possible advice or comments will be highly appreciated, honestly if can't fix this will leave it like that I'm done, PERIOD!!!!
