Tell me to stop worrying about high ph!

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

For those interested in high pH issues, here's my article on it:

High pH: Causes and Cures by Randy Holmes-Farley - Reefkeeping.com

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-03/rhf/index.htm

 

[Stigigemla]

To me it looks like you have driven the phosphate to zero. With zero phosphate the nitrate reducing bacteria dies off and might pollute the water + if you add a carbon source it will remain in the water.
Typical for Montipora when phosphate sinks to zero is wounds = white areas anywhere on the colony.

 

[kid976]

Yeah I believe with a little research on the forum and responses I've concluded I drove everything down too fast. I had low nutrients to begin with and I had stopped adding acro power to feed my corals around the time when I setup my doser and gfo reactor. So even though I was raising the alk slowly I'm guess the acros weren't having it especially when the gfo stripped all the phosphates out. My gfo reactor has been and what's left of my monti's are hanging in there my alk is stable at 7.3dkh my nitrates are up to 5ppm now and now I believe I have some phosphates since my nitrates are up. Hopefully everything now will recover. So if this happened because my tank was "too clean" how do other people run ultra low nutrient tanks without coral rtn and stuff? Thank for the responses guys [emoji111]️[emoji16]

 

[Reduck]

Yep. Driving tank "clean" too fast is bad. Been there done that. Cost me some prized corals. Slow is key. Don't reduce nitrates or phosphates too fast. Better smaller amounts of gfo at first changed more often than large amounts changed seldom. Unless nitrates are dangerously high, small water changes rather than huge.

Oh and my ph is 8.55 today and I'm not worried!