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I’ve been wondering. My ph runs at 8.4 - 8.6 through the day. With a ph that high is there any concerns about tank health? Yes my ph probe was just calibrated, and I’m sorry my ph runs that high. I use kalk and I dose alk to keep my alk at 7.5 - 8. So far no negative signs just happy corals and clams
 
I Calibrate my pH Probe with the One time Use pH solutions. Then I tweak it while it’s sampling the tank water, to what two different pH test come out too. BTW I kept reading about Dosing this and that to keep the pH up. I was having little success, then I started noticing that most talked about high CO2 in our homes. I took an old Air Pump, put a rebuild kit in it that I had. Carefully drilled a hole in it near the coil. Put a piece of 1/4” ridged Air Line tubings Superglue in the hole. Sealed the pump base and cord up with Aquarium Silicone glue. Ran the tubing outside to an old pill bottle layered with Dacron and Aquarium Charcoal, low pH is solved with no extra dosing.
 
I’ve been wondering. My ph runs at 8.4 - 8.6 through the day. With a ph that high is there any concerns about tank health? Yes my ph probe was just calibrated, and I’m sorry my ph runs that high. I use kalk and I dose alk to keep my alk at 7.5 - 8. So far no negative signs just happy corals and clams

I think that its ok if everything seems to be doing well and happy. There are some things you can dose your tank with that will change the ph but i believe that it should be pretty good if everything is happy. The only thing i can see happening is calcium buildup on things like heaters.
 
I have been up in these regions too - during the first two years. Nema Problema. You using kalk - i suppose that means that you dosing lime water and lime water will rise the pH

Sincerely Lasse
 

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