Anything bad about high ph?

Canadian Man · #1 01-02-2003, 04:40 AM

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 · #2 01-02-2003, 05:57 AM

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

Canadian Man · #3 01-02-2003, 07:08 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 · #4 01-03-2003, 12:59 AM

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

StirCrazy · #5 01-03-2003, 01:02 AM

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

Steve

Canadian Man · #6 01-03-2003, 03:05 AM

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

Delphinus · #7 01-03-2003, 07:14 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 · #8 01-03-2003, 08:33 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.