Well if you look at my various posts to R2R you'll notice I've posed this question before. But I just can't get my head around this problem(?). My Alk is high, today I tested (Red Sea) and the testing liquid never changed, well it did get darker and maybe kinda purple but that's it.
I do 5 gallon water changes once a week that I get from my LFS. A few weeks ago when I tested the LFS water and the ALK was 7.7.
I understand that ALK isn't something in the water like Calcium, etc. so its frustrating to not know why its high, and what it fluctuates so much in my tank - its been steadily increasing for the last 3-4 weeks.
Now the good news, my fish are fine, my corals are fine (at least the one's that are still alive in my tank). So maybe I should just stop testing and that might elevate the weekly frustration of not being able to get a handle on this param :neutral:
I had been dosing Calcium but stopped that a week ago. I am dosing AquaVitro Balance to get my PH up - it was consistently around 7.8 (API indeterminate color but close to 7.8). Now that I'm writing this I think my LFS said that Balance might raise the ALK, hmmm. Could that be it? But I've only been doing this for 1 week and the ALK has been high, and climbing for several weeks now.
Here is everything else I measured today if that helps:
I do 5 gallon water changes once a week that I get from my LFS. A few weeks ago when I tested the LFS water and the ALK was 7.7.
I understand that ALK isn't something in the water like Calcium, etc. so its frustrating to not know why its high, and what it fluctuates so much in my tank - its been steadily increasing for the last 3-4 weeks.
Now the good news, my fish are fine, my corals are fine (at least the one's that are still alive in my tank). So maybe I should just stop testing and that might elevate the weekly frustration of not being able to get a handle on this param :neutral:
I had been dosing Calcium but stopped that a week ago. I am dosing AquaVitro Balance to get my PH up - it was consistently around 7.8 (API indeterminate color but close to 7.8). Now that I'm writing this I think my LFS said that Balance might raise the ALK, hmmm. Could that be it? But I've only been doing this for 1 week and the ALK has been high, and climbing for several weeks now.
Here is everything else I measured today if that helps: