Hoping to raise pH with Kent Marine superbuffer-dkh. Please help?

[Jeremy Lain]

Hello,

A while back I purchased superbuffer-dkh, and I have been learning about needing to raise my ph to 8.1-8.3 in my reef tank. Can someone please help me understand how this product works? If I have a ph of 7.8 on a 22 gallon reef tank and adding the amount suggested on the directions how long is it going to take me to bring the ph up to 8.1-3. It says add one teaspoon per day for 20-30 gallons until ph and alkalinity are at desireable parameters. Are we talking it might take days, weeks, months?

Here is a link with the product description also:
https://www.marinedepot.com/Kent_Ma...plements-Kent_Marine-KM3131-FIADPKDP-vi.html#


I am planning to later dose kalkwasser to bring my ph up but for now this is what I have.

 

[SPR1968]

Hi Jeremy

I’m just wondering why you feel you need to raise your pH ?

I looked into a similar situation a while ago as my system runs around 7.8-8 and I wanted it at 8.2 because that’s what I read it should be

After hours of reading I decided all my live stock were healthy and didn’t care about the actual number, and were only talking a small % anyway

The article below is something I read
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-09/rhf/

Unless you have a very valid reason and are confident with additives, and how they will work and how much to add, I would leave it as it is, as you could cause some serious issues if it goes wrong.

Also something as simple as opening a few windows with raise the pH a little.

But to answer your question if you do add it, it looks like days if not hours.

 

[andyg1960]

If you are using a quality salt mix, let it be and don’t mess with that stuff. What are you using to measure pH? What is the pH of your newly mixed salt water?

 

[Graffiti Spot]

That product also raises your alk so you won't be able to just use it to raise your pH without raising your alk. I have had a few friends new to the hobby use it and crash their tanks thinking it's what they needed.
If you want to raise pH the only way is to use a skimmer connected to an outside air source or use co2 trapping media in a prefilter hooked up to the air intake.