Hey Everyone! I've been having some issues with stabilizing the pH in my 40-gallon breeder and was wondering if you could help share some advice. I've been dosing pH with Aqua Vitro's Eight-Four and still haven't been able to get the pH to stabilize. I'm finding that I need to dose pretty much every day. I'm worried that dosing Eight-Four this much could also be causing my alkalinity to get too high but currently, I don't have a kH test kit. Is this level of dosing normal? I'm finding that pretty much every time I check my pH it is around 8.0 and I would really like to get it stabilized around 8.4. I'm sure the constant pH swing can't be good for the tank inhabitants. All of my other parameters have remained constant. Ammonia is always at 0, Nitrite is always at 0, and Nitrate is always below 20. Should I change products or am I just doing something wrong? This is my first reef tank so I'm still pretty new. At this point, the tank is about 3 months old. All of the corals are doing very well and growing. I've recently had bad luck with my fish and I'm wondering if these pH swings might have something to do with it. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Here is the current stocklist of my Aquarium
Fish/Inverts
Here is the current stocklist of my Aquarium
Fish/Inverts
- 2 Bangai Cardinal Fish
- 1 Ocellaris Clownfish
- 1 Red Eye Fairy Wrasse
- 1 Black Long-Spined Sea Urchin
- 1 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
- 1 Peppermint Shrimp
- 2 Mexican Turbo Snails
- 3 Astrea Snails
- 2 Cerith Snails
- 3 Nessarius Snails
- Fox Coral
- Grandis Palythoa
- Palythoa
- Candy Cane Coral
- Zoanthids
- Velvet Mushroom
- Ricordea Mushroom
- Acan
- Montipora
- Hammer Coral
- Frogspawn