The pH effect will only be temporary and you'll have to boost your dkH significantly to see effect.Bake baking soda at 350 degrees for 30 minutes and use the baking soda to boost the PH is going to be my next step
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The pH effect will only be temporary and you'll have to boost your dkH significantly to see effect.Bake baking soda at 350 degrees for 30 minutes and use the baking soda to boost the PH is going to be my next step
Here how I rigged my co2 scrubber to make the media last up to 3 weeks or more:
I drilled a larger hole in my skimmer lids vent holes (I just bored out a vent hole to a larger diameter) to accomodate a nylon elbow fitting. Silcone tubing routs air drawn from the top of skimmer collection cup, which is moist air, into the reactor. The other side of the reactor is routed to the air intake of the skimmer. This insures that moist air is always drawn into the co2 scrubbing media. I last anywhere from 3 to 4 weeks before the media is completely exhausted and purple.
8.0-8.2. My skimmer pulls air from outdoors and I dose 5300mL of saturated kalk a day.
CO2 concentration is completely independent of oxygen.Mine stays low between 7.5-7.8. Co2 in my house averages around 1500ppm when windows are closed and all 7 people and 2 dogs are home. I make the kids play outside when they get worked up, i tell them they're messing with my ph breathing so hard. Im about to drill a hole outside for fresh air. I have a few tangs that are very active and im more worried about lack of oxygen in my tank than ph. I have a large refugium with a huge ball of chaeto with a 160 watt light and it grows like weeds but doesn't help ph any.
Two part with alk goin every 15 minutes at night.For those that don’t think PH is important, you should watch BRS video on PH effects on coral growth. Spoiler alert, calcification happens faster at higher PH, target 8.3. From their perspective, PH is the secret ingredient to coral growth. I do everything (well almost everything), Kalk in ATO, outside line for protein skimmer in winter months, large chaeto refugium, refugium lights offset to display tank, I can get up to 8.15 in winter months, higher in summer with windows open.
I do believe that chasing numbers, is real with PH.
https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/vide...ease-coral-growth-52-weeks-of-reefing-brs160/