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Canadian Man 01-02-2003 03:40 AM

Anything bad about high ph?
 
Well I have been testing my Ph for the past 24hrs to see what the fluctuation throughout a 24h period is. I have found that with my highly lit reverse refugium it almost dosent fluctuate.

Results: durring the daytime halide period on the main tank it's 8.51
durring the nighttime refugium lighting period it's 8.45

Diffrence = 0.06 which in my opinon is almost nothing.

Anyway so my question is, is a ph of 8.5 too high?
This is the ph with my calcium reactor running! :shock:

Bryan 01-02-2003 04:57 AM

Are you sure your Ph is that high. What are you using to measure it?

Canadian Man 01-02-2003 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bryan
Are you sure your Ph is that high. What are you using to measure it?

I am using my new milwakee ph moniter from Saltwater connection.
I just calibrated it 3 days ago.

Delphinius(Tony) is going to try to make it over today to mesure it with his same moniter.

Canadian Man 01-02-2003 11:59 PM

Well I recalabrated my monitor and ph is actually 8.08.
so now low :roll:

StirCrazy 01-03-2003 12:02 AM

um.. 8.08 (might as well say 8.1) is fine..


Steve

Canadian Man 01-03-2003 02:05 AM

Well even with my monitor miss calibrated it did tell me that my ph is stable, which is a great thing :D

Delphinus 01-03-2003 06:14 AM

What did you do differently in the calibration? (Sorry I wasn't able to come over tonight, but should we still do the comparison thing tomorrow?)

Canadian Man 01-03-2003 07:33 AM

Nothing really diffrent. I just let them sit at room temp instead of in the tank but that should have made no diffrence as you adjust the temp dial when calibrating anyway.

I think the monitor may have shifted cause it was giving the same reading at first on but then the next day it was out. I had it sitting in my effluent cup instead of the tank water but I cant see how that made any diffrence.

So anyway at midnight on Thursday the ph is comming in at 7.98 so 8.0.


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