Have you compared your hanna alk checkers reading to a titration test like Salifert or ReaSea?
Seems like you made a few knee jerk reactions like big water changes, etc etc based soley on your checkers results ? that could explain visual indicators of stress from your corals.
Id confirm your Dkh with a titration kit before taking further action. Could be a faulty checker, comprised reagent etc.
Hey, so I checked it and it is comparable to my hanna the DKH tested .06-.08 on the salifert test kit. So in the same range on my hanna checker. I will check the hanna checker again to see if it is the same -/+.5 on either kit.