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I could use some help troubleshooting my pH. It’s been sitting at about 7.90-7.98 for the past month. I have a recirculating scrubber with fresh media attached to a RO 150sss elite skimmer on a 100 gal tank. I’m doing soda ash to keep alk at 8 and using tropic Marin pro reef salt. I do an autowater change of 1.4 gal per day (10% per week). I bought a CO2 detector and my living room levels are around 900-1000 ppm. My pH is 7.7-7.8 without the scrubber. My pH is measured with an apex and I bought a Hanna checker that gives similar readings.
Opening a window isn’t practical since I live in Florida and require AC 11 months of the year to keep the house livable. I tried to run an air line to the garage but there’s no way to run it through the walls with my AWC tubes that doesn’t result in the tube creating a U shape. The tubes are run through 2 walls and behind appliances. I’m worried that condensation will eventually block that tube and I would have no way of monitoring it.
Would changing to Kalk give me a better boost to pH? My acro growth has been stagnant so I think pH might be to blame. I did ICP testing and outside of a slight decrease in iodine it’s within normal limits.
I was considering switching to aquaforest components for dosing as well. I was lucky and won a pack from BRS with it and it seems intriguing. Not sure if that will alter the pH though.
Opening a window isn’t practical since I live in Florida and require AC 11 months of the year to keep the house livable. I tried to run an air line to the garage but there’s no way to run it through the walls with my AWC tubes that doesn’t result in the tube creating a U shape. The tubes are run through 2 walls and behind appliances. I’m worried that condensation will eventually block that tube and I would have no way of monitoring it.
Would changing to Kalk give me a better boost to pH? My acro growth has been stagnant so I think pH might be to blame. I did ICP testing and outside of a slight decrease in iodine it’s within normal limits.
I was considering switching to aquaforest components for dosing as well. I was lucky and won a pack from BRS with it and it seems intriguing. Not sure if that will alter the pH though.