Good Alk, Ca, LOW pH!!

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I run a calcium reactor on a heavily stocked SPS 93 gal reef.
All top off water is Kalkwasser

pH is low (even lower than I thought after calibrating my 3 apex Lab probes.) Was 7.6, now reads 7.48.
Alk is 9.3 solid, Ca 446 (Hanna checkers).
Is it possible my probes/config is off? or is the pH that low with the Alk levels that high? I have a CO2 scrubber on my skimmer.

I can add Alkalinity, Kalk, whatever. The pH rises but drops back down within an hour. How is this possible?

I've done a collective 55 gallon water change over the past few days.
Everything in the tank is looking great, I'm just concerned with the low pH readings.
 
After reading this issue over different forums and recalibration get my PH probes numerous times I went out and bought a Hanna PH checker. After calibrating it in fresh water ( RO/DI) saltwater and my tanks water it told me a different story. My probes I calibrated the same way with fresh, salt, but first was calibration fluid for all of them ( 4.0 and 7.0)
I don't know what it is and no one has ever given I good explanation ( at least from I could understand why) but my checker was or is higher by .53 in other words my probes were at 7.67 and my checker always gives me a reading of 8.19 or 8.2
 

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