System has been running stable in the 9.5 dKH range but on saturday night a tragedy occurred. The ATO malfunctioned and when i brought it back online it dumped quite a lot of kalk into the system.
The system was already running near 8.4 pH but when this happened the ph spiked to above 8.7, slowly over the course of 6 hours the pH came down but i didnt really have eyes on the tank.
My apex alerted me my alk had plumeted to 5.6 (yikes) at midnight when trident took the test (6 hours after the "event").
So along with this calcium also dropped to 360 from 430.
White dusting everywhere basically but i got that cleaned up. The problem was, I couldn't seem to add anything to the water to raise the alkalinity! It would raise it accutely then fall back down.
On sunday after getting some rest I decided to pull a 40% water change (panic mode). The water change helped quite a bit and immediately brought the alk up to 7.2 (not great, but better!) And i was feeling pretty good like maybe I could turn this thing around.
The problem is now we are 48 hours from the time of the "event" and I cant get the alk to rise. I had it going up near 8 dkh which was exciting but now it appears to have dropped down again (7.2 again).
CA is up to around 435 and mg has risen a bit thru all this (1550) but why cant i get the alk to go up now? Its like its stuck.
Any insights would be very helpful thanks!
The system was already running near 8.4 pH but when this happened the ph spiked to above 8.7, slowly over the course of 6 hours the pH came down but i didnt really have eyes on the tank.
My apex alerted me my alk had plumeted to 5.6 (yikes) at midnight when trident took the test (6 hours after the "event").
So along with this calcium also dropped to 360 from 430.
White dusting everywhere basically but i got that cleaned up. The problem was, I couldn't seem to add anything to the water to raise the alkalinity! It would raise it accutely then fall back down.
On sunday after getting some rest I decided to pull a 40% water change (panic mode). The water change helped quite a bit and immediately brought the alk up to 7.2 (not great, but better!) And i was feeling pretty good like maybe I could turn this thing around.
The problem is now we are 48 hours from the time of the "event" and I cant get the alk to rise. I had it going up near 8 dkh which was exciting but now it appears to have dropped down again (7.2 again).
CA is up to around 435 and mg has risen a bit thru all this (1550) but why cant i get the alk to go up now? Its like its stuck.
Any insights would be very helpful thanks!