Help me with my PH

[ikolbaba06]

Thank you!

 

[BoomCorals]

NASA suggest one house plant for every 100sqft of a house. Some are better than others. Why I know this? When my wife put her office on the same floor as the tank I noticed pH changes, looked into it and after putting 5 plants in her room close to the tank, no more issues!

Not an option in a basement with no windows

 

[Ty Hamatake]

Not an option in a basement with no windows

Coming from a guy that has how much invested in lights to grow water plants in a basement?

 

[BoomCorals]

Coming from a guy that has how much invested in lights to grow water plants in a basement?

That's what I told my wife! But she made a good point about the extra hassle and electricity and heat it would cause.

 

[Shaun Sweeney]

I ran about 60' of cheap "non potable" black plastic pvc pipe from the outside to the inlet of my scrubber. Then I ran 3 feeds to my 3 skimmers. My readings stay above 8.2 and the media lasts for months.

 

[Mindi]

I am holding out for a 2 part solution which holds up my pH before I go broke on sodalime.

 

[moiy24]

I had the same issue, tried everything, my solution and what I advise to you is to buy an air extractor to blow fresh air in, this will instantly help as the tank will have fresh air and will raise ph. I programmed mine with my apex to turn on if ph goes below 8

 

[BoomCorals]

I had the same issue, tried everything, my solution and what I advise to you is to buy an air extractor to blow fresh air in, this will instantly help as the tank will have fresh air and will raise ph. I programmed mine with my apex to turn on if ph goes below 8

Yep this is the route I'm going. Going to try DIY install of the exchanger.

 

[siggy]

You could try to install intake vents on the return side of your HVAC plenum in the basement, that would draw the basement air out and pull upstairs air down into the basement. The only drawback would be in the summer when the ac is running, it would pull less warm air from the upper levels. But like Randy mentioned it's most likely always winter up there or at least a couple of months of tough sledding.

As the Air exchanger goes, it will be drawing heated air and replacing with cold. Now install a heat exchanger for fresh supply.... Maybe talk to a mechanical Tech, also the levels of co2 in the basement may be too poor exhausting of furnace and hotwater tank, now i'm thinking hot water tank that's running every day, Frequently, does yours have a blower or use convection to exhaust.
Good luck

 

[BoomCorals]

You could try to install intake vents on the return side of your HVAC plenum in the basement, that would draw the basement air out and pull upstairs air down into the basement. The only drawback would be in the summer when the ac is running, it would pull less warm air from the upper levels. But like Randy mentioned it's most likely always winter up there or at least a couple of months of tough sledding.

As the Air exchanger goes, it will be drawing heated air and replacing with cold. Now install a heat exchanger for fresh supply.... Maybe talk to a mechanical Tech, also the levels of co2 in the basement may be too poor exhausting of furnace and hotwater tank, now i'm thinking hot water tank that's running every day, Frequently, does yours have a blower or use convection to exhaust.
Good luck

Our hot water heater uses force vented blower to exhaust out.

 

[sghera64]

I ran about 60' of cheap "non potable" black plastic pvc pipe from the outside to the inlet of my scrubber. Then I ran 3 feeds to my 3 skimmers. My readings stay above 8.2 and the media lasts for months.

What diameter?

 

[Dom]

I'm feeling like I need to run a line to the outside for my skimmer intake. However, the line would have to be a solid 30 feet long. The inside diameter would have to be 5/16" to match the skimmer intake nozzle. Is that going to be too long to be effective?

30 feet is a long run for air. You'd want some sort of pump to move air along.

 

[BoomCorals]

Finally got the little window in the fish room open and put two fans in the window. One blowing out and one in. PH went to 8.0 without a co2 scrubber, and co2 went from 2000 ppm to 600.

Thanks everyone for the help. Will be installing a single room air exchanger for the basement now that I see the effect the window and two fans had.