I live along the foothills outside of Denver. Our altitude is around 7000 feet.
Is altitude a problem for PH. I've never had good luck with it. My PH is always around 7.8 and barely ever 8.0 I'm running a refugium of course and open the house windows when I can but it's winter. I've tried dosing seachem reef buffer 8.3 but I still can't ever get it up. Do I just need to keep dosing it all at once until it's at 8.3 in one day?
Also I know we keep our salinity at altitude a bit higher. Mine is always at 1.026 this was explained to me a long time ago. Something about the oxygen exchange because of the thinner air at altitude.
Any other tips for good reef keeping at altitude?
Is altitude a problem for PH. I've never had good luck with it. My PH is always around 7.8 and barely ever 8.0 I'm running a refugium of course and open the house windows when I can but it's winter. I've tried dosing seachem reef buffer 8.3 but I still can't ever get it up. Do I just need to keep dosing it all at once until it's at 8.3 in one day?
Also I know we keep our salinity at altitude a bit higher. Mine is always at 1.026 this was explained to me a long time ago. Something about the oxygen exchange because of the thinner air at altitude.
Any other tips for good reef keeping at altitude?