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So here's my issue. I dose brs 2 part calcium and alkalinity and I dose Balance by aquavittro which brings up pH. Before I dosed 20ml of pH daily my pH would be extremely low around 7-7.5. Now since I'm dosing it's up around 7.8-8.1 and I'm fine with that. But I don't know why my pH drops so much to the point where I have to add 20-25 ml a day.
 
Till what does it drop?
You can use kalkwasser in your ATO in order to balance out your PH.
Do you run a skimmer?
 
Till what does it drop?
You can use kalkwasser in your ATO in order to balance out your PH.
Do you run a skimmer?
Lol. 7.0-7.5. I don't do kalkwasser. It's an sps dominated tank and I top off 2-3 gallons of water a day. I like dosing much more. And of course I run a skimmer lol.
 
But- a combination of 2-part & kalk will help your ph problem and slow down on the usage of the 2-part.
I don't use that much two part I don't care about how much of that I use. I just want to know why pH depletes that much. I'm not going to use kalkwasser I prefer dosing 2 part much more and my corals love it.
 
Great points above..
How did you measure PH?
Try to inject fresh outside air through the skimmer as your inside room air might have a high level of Co2.
Levels of Po4 and No3 can have something to do with you PH.
How do you measure your 8/9 DKH?
 
Great points above..
How did you measure PH?
Try to inject fresh outside air through the skimmer as your inside room air might have a high level of Co2.
Levels of Po4 and No3 can have something to do with you PH.
How do you measure your 8/9 DKH?
Califert and Red Sea test kit. My nitrates are 5ppm and phosphate 0ppm. I tried using that co2 absorption media through my calcium reactor barely moved the pH levels
 
IMO you made a error in PH testing, when Alk is between 8 and 9 (which is a large margin) you PH shouldn't be at 7.
Lets tag @Randy Holmes-Farley in this as he can go a bit deeper in this.
 
IMO you made a error in PH testing, when Alk is between 8 and 9 (which is a large margin) you PH shouldn't be at 7.
Lets tag @Randy Holmes-Farley in this as he can go a bit deeper in this.
I did not make an error in testing. I use Hagen pH test kit as well as my Neptunes lab grade pH probe and it's brand new. I've had this problem for a while.
 
So here's my issue. I dose brs 2 part calcium and alkalinity and I dose Balance by aquavittro which brings up pH. Before I dosed 20ml of pH daily my pH would be extremely low around 7-7.5. Now since I'm dosing it's up around 7.8-8.1 and I'm fine with that. But I don't know why my pH drops so much to the point where I have to add 20-25 ml a day.

Avoid balance. It is an alk supplement, despite their lack of knowledge in claiming it is not.

Or if you use it, bear in mind that it is like adding limewater (kalkwasser) without the calcium.

If your pH really is low, it can only be due to excessive CO2, since CO2 and alkalinit determine pH mathematically.
 
Lol. 7.0-7.5. I don't do kalkwasser. It's an sps dominated tank and I top off 2-3 gallons of water a day. I like dosing much more. And of course I run a skimmer lol.
The kalkwasser is a solutiom, and perfectly acceptable for an sps tank. I suspect youve had problems with it in the past to be ao against it? And what lighting do you use and what size tank to burn over 2 gallons a day? Is it splashing out? A normal day in my 90 with halides blasting 10hrs is roughly half gallon a day
 
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Avoid balance. It is an alk supplement, despite their lack of knowledge in claiming it is not.

Or if you use it, bear in mind that it is like adding limewater (kalkwasser) without the calcium.

If your pH really is low, it can only be due to excessive CO2, since CO2 and alkalinit determine pH mathematically.
I've been using balance 20-25ml daily since the beginning of the year. Dosing brs 2 part 5ml alkalinity once a day and 38ml of calcium once a day. I did that little test you do to see if you have excessive co2 in the house and it's a very minuet change so I don't know what else it can be. Explain kalkwasser to me because i really don't want to do the drip thing or throw it in my top off water. If anything id like to dose it.
 
I've been using balance 20-25ml daily since the beginning of the year. Dosing brs 2 part 5ml alkalinity once a day and 38ml of calcium once a day. I did that little test you do to see if you have excessive co2 in the house and it's a very minuet change so I don't know what else it can be. Explain kalkwasser to me because i really don't want to do the drip thing or throw it in my top off water. If anything id like to dose it.
Despite the unusual amount of top off you go through, ot is best imo in your ato.
 

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