Alkalinity 25..need help..

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Is anything apparently suffering from the high alk?

I'd probably just wait for it to drop while dosing nothing, unless you find calcium gets too low, but water changes or adding a mineral acid (such as muriatic acid) can be used. The mineral acid approach drops pH tremendously, if temporarily.
 
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Is anything apparently suffering from the high alk?

I'd probably just wait for it to drop while dosing nothing, unless you find calcium gets too low, but water changes or adding a mineral acid (such as muriatic acid) can be used. The mineral acid approach drops pH tremendously, if temporarily.
Did a 20% wc and stopped adding alk for sm days and all was normal.
 

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