Been out for 15 years, remember always struggling with keeping ph up. Fast forward to now I have 3 40 breeders set up for QTs, fully cycled. 240 main display is still going together. Using RO/DI with fritz salt (blue box). PH is 7.5, tried putting it outside with a power head in it for 3 hours - only goes to 7.7. dKH is 8.7. QTs are simple aquarium only with hang on back and two have airstone/sponges. I have no way to get outside air efficiently into them and seriously doubt it will help much anyway. I can't run a scrubber except on the main and I really don't want to burn through media every week. Can't really dose kalkwasser yet because there is nothing in them to uptake and won't be able to run a fuge on the main until the tank has been running for a while and can support it. BTW - ph on my freshwater tanks sticks around 8.2.
Sadly at this point I wonder if I'm just trying to push something that can't happen. Huge investment, but I don't want to be irresponsible and kill a bunch of fish and coral.
Any suggestions would be appreciated - Scott
Sadly at this point I wonder if I'm just trying to push something that can't happen. Huge investment, but I don't want to be irresponsible and kill a bunch of fish and coral.
Any suggestions would be appreciated - Scott
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