Hello, I have a curious issue here. I just pulled my skimmer to do my once yearly cleaning. Very simple soak in a little bit of Sicce pump clean overnight. I rinsed the skimmer thoroughly and re-installed. I made a change in regards to the way it was plumbed. I was running its inlet pump through a small reactor with a very small amount of carbon and some ceramic media. I decided to remove that. I don't think that would have had much effect. Anyhow, upon re-installing the skimmer my numbers on alk mag and cal dropped in a way that I assumed at first must have been test error (I have not ruled that out yet).
Alkalinity fell from 8.7 to 7.1, Ca 422 to 263 and Mag 1314 to 871.
My dKh is normally very stable from 8.1 to 8.8. Cal and mag are always very stable. I am a bit confused as to how it would be possible to lose so much mag and cal in a matter of hours. I have ran numerous trident tests and have primed. I will try some hanna tests to be 100% sure however I have no issues with my trident and I would think this to be too coincidental to suddenly have test errors after skimmer maintenance. The system is fairly mature so I am not stressing, I believe it can handle it and will adjust back up in some time. I am just curious if anyone else has experienced this. I was expecting PH differences from not running my skimmer for 24hr but this water chemistry change I was not expecting. Any thoughts are much appreciated.
Alkalinity fell from 8.7 to 7.1, Ca 422 to 263 and Mag 1314 to 871.
My dKh is normally very stable from 8.1 to 8.8. Cal and mag are always very stable. I am a bit confused as to how it would be possible to lose so much mag and cal in a matter of hours. I have ran numerous trident tests and have primed. I will try some hanna tests to be 100% sure however I have no issues with my trident and I would think this to be too coincidental to suddenly have test errors after skimmer maintenance. The system is fairly mature so I am not stressing, I believe it can handle it and will adjust back up in some time. I am just curious if anyone else has experienced this. I was expecting PH differences from not running my skimmer for 24hr but this water chemistry change I was not expecting. Any thoughts are much appreciated.