salt wars

[binford4000]

I've been battling salt for a month now.Well not exactly the salt but the alk levels that freshly mixed salt water has.I started my system with red sea pro which gave a consitant 9.3 dkh.But as growth and introduction of more coral it was dificult to maintain useing pickle lime.So it was time to change,I then went to reef crystal's which at first was mixing at 10 dkh roughly so went that way for a few months and sevral buckets later noticed a serious change to very high alk levels 13 dkh to 18 dkh depending on the bucket.With addition of 2 part doaseing my alk levels began to jump all over the place.So I turned the doaser off thinking I'm just going to fast with the toy's and let the corals bring it down.Sounded good to me.I kept my auto water changes going(3.5 gal a day) and tested every day then bought more kits to double and triple check the first kit.Alk still swang from 9 dkh to as high as 12 dkh in the tank.I have now switched to britewell and am happy to announce four days later and six test's later am now recording 8 dkh alk and 440 ppm Ca.So far so good and that's with running the doaser at 50 ml of each part a day.So what am I getting at?? Has anyone else experienced issues similar to this or am I alone?? Thought maybee shareing the problems and solutions might help others.These are my new levels as of twenty minuates ago.

Alk 8.0 dkh
Ca 440 ppm
No2 0 ppm
No3 0 ppm
Ph 8.2
Mag 1400
Amonia 0
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