My hypothesis, since ph drops during the night, increasing the intensity of my lights during the day would increase ph.
My current setup is a 1yr old 65g AIO, mixed reef and fish. My corals stay alive, but do not flourish as I recall they did when I was previously in the hobby. I have been using a hybrid lighting and the schedule was 7am to 7pm LED that would ramp to mimic dusk to dawn. I would run t5 for only 1 hr, noon to 1. Chemical levels aside I would be testing 8.0ph consistently for the last few months on 2 separate red sea kits. This past week I increased the T5 lighting to 5 hrs and my ph has posted 8.4 2 days in a row.
I noted that an SPS which I had for a while lost some tissue and a torch and frogspawn seem fuller.
Fish are all fine.
My current setup is a 1yr old 65g AIO, mixed reef and fish. My corals stay alive, but do not flourish as I recall they did when I was previously in the hobby. I have been using a hybrid lighting and the schedule was 7am to 7pm LED that would ramp to mimic dusk to dawn. I would run t5 for only 1 hr, noon to 1. Chemical levels aside I would be testing 8.0ph consistently for the last few months on 2 separate red sea kits. This past week I increased the T5 lighting to 5 hrs and my ph has posted 8.4 2 days in a row.
I noted that an SPS which I had for a while lost some tissue and a torch and frogspawn seem fuller.
Fish are all fine.