How Do I Bring Down My PH

[brick-brothers]

ok I've been trying to bring down my ph for the past few days. Its around 8.5. I've been dosing vineger but my ph goes right back up. My cal is 420, alk 9, mag 1460. I did 25% water change using esv mix. What else can I do?

 

[tosiek]

As with any problem in your tank, something is causing it. Find that out and your problem is fixed. And stop using vinegar. Its not the best thing to be dosing your tank with.

What are you dosing in your tank? what are your PH readings before and after the ESV mix water change? And what is the PH of your ESV mix before you add it in? When do you do water changes? When do you see a higher PH? What are you testing your PH with? I can go on and on. It could be as simple as what your feeding thats causing the higher PH.

On another note your alk can be dropped a bit. Get it down to 8 and your PH will correct itself.

 

[brick-brothers]

I feed the tank once a day, flake or mysis. The reading is coming off my aqua controller. Water change every sunday. I'll check the ph before and after when I do my water change this sun. I'll buy a test kit for ph. My my probe is reading is wrong

 

[tosiek]

Yeah I would do monthly tests to check the PH probe. I have to with mine as its usually off by .2.

 

[brick-brothers]

ok cool, What do you used to stablize it or bring it down if its high?

 

[LongIslandAndy]

Try the PH probe in tap water or make up some new saltwater and see what ph you are getting. To be honest unless you dumping in buffer or Kalkwasser IMO it would be very hard to maintain a ph of 8.5. I bet the probe is off

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

Try the PH probe in tap water or make up some new saltwater and see what ph you are getting. To be honest unless you dumping in buffer or Kalkwasser IMO it would be very hard to maintain a ph of 8.5. I bet the probe is off

+1, very hard to get above 8.2 unless you overdose kalk

 

[tosiek]

Or your mixing your ESV salt without taking into consideration the alk already present in your tank.

Your PH is mainly affected by the calcium/alkalinity/magnesium levels in your tank. If those are in check then your tank should be stable at 8.0-8.4 PH. To fix it just add less of whatever your dosing to the tank that controls ALK. Its that simple. There is no magic addative to drop it.

 

[brick-brothers]

ok im going to test my probe tonight when i get in. Will keep yall posted. Thanks

 

[InfernoST]

I re calibrated my probe before I started dosing Kalk and found it to be way off.

 

[MIKE NY]

Try the PH probe in tap water or make up some new saltwater and see what ph you are getting. To be honest unless you dumping in buffer or Kalkwasser IMO it would be very hard to maintain a ph of 8.5. I bet the probe is off

x2..probably the probe or the monitor needs adjustment

 

[brick-brothers]

Update: The probe was the problem. I bought a new probe, everything is back to normal.

 

[InfernoST]

Cool, figured it had to be that. So what is your PH?