Dosing alk with help to raise the pH just be careful.
It would be best to open up the house.
Also are you getting good surface ripples to help with the gas exchange?
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Dosing alk with help to raise the pH just be careful.
It would be best to open up the house.
Also are you getting good surface ripples to help with the gas exchange?
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+1 on the alk. What is your alk reading? How and when are you dosing alk? Dosing in the evening or throughout the night may help some (depending on how you supplement).
Another though... reverse light cycle on a fuge with chaeto and/or other macroalgae may help.
Off the wall idea... house plants? They would suck up the CO2 during the day.
BeakerBob's expertise may be helpful... perhaps this thread could be moved to his Discussion with the Experts section?
Don,
Few things are needed to help you in the right direction.
1. The graph is pH vs ?? , the X axis (time) has to be populated to see the rate of fluctuations.
2. What kind of corals do you have and how large is your system?
3. Whats your dosing and light regimen?
4. Do you monitor alk?
5. Equipments accuracy and tolerance range.
As always with anything reef related , its not the fluctuations that kill , its the rate of fluctuation.
Some helpful reading: http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-05/rhf/index.php
Last edited by Manoj's Reef; 08-18-2010 at 12:55 PM.
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