Stuart.Wiltshire
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I need some help with understanding what a raised PH does to the how a raised PH acts with other water perameters.
The story so far.
My Stats today are PH 8.6/8.7, AMM 0.25ppm, nitrite 0.05ppm, nitrate 2.5ppm, ALK 1.7-2.8mil/L, SG 1.025, temp 25.5C.
My stock is 4"blue spotted tang, 4"yellow tang, 2x 2"green chromis, 3"cleaner wrasse, 4" Maroon clown, 2" mandarin, 6" sea hare, 5x cleaner shrimp, 1x fire shrimp, 2x 5"star fish, 40+ various snails, 8 x hermits.
leather musroom, various other small soft coral. All livestock are eating and appear happy and well.
Tank and sump equate to 95 gallon, including 60+ kg of live rock. tank has been cycled more than 5 months. never seen ammonia since cycling.
I returned to my LFS today a with beaten up Bubble Tip Anenome, this is after only one week, the clown was so excited and has continualyy harrased this poor creature to submission and the blue spotted tang, i suspect, started to bite chunks out of it. The LFS is doing every thing he can to try to save hime but we suspect he is the cause of the ammonia and nitrite traces.
I carried out a 25% water change today, more tomorrow.
I am troubled by the high PH, even my fresh, 1 week aged water is giving a pH of 8.6.
The question is should i use buffer to bring it down to range, or is this acceptable, my LFS says that i should only do water changes and not use buffer. Since the shop closed before i tested the fresh water he isnt aware of my findings.
Best advice please.
The story so far.
My Stats today are PH 8.6/8.7, AMM 0.25ppm, nitrite 0.05ppm, nitrate 2.5ppm, ALK 1.7-2.8mil/L, SG 1.025, temp 25.5C.
My stock is 4"blue spotted tang, 4"yellow tang, 2x 2"green chromis, 3"cleaner wrasse, 4" Maroon clown, 2" mandarin, 6" sea hare, 5x cleaner shrimp, 1x fire shrimp, 2x 5"star fish, 40+ various snails, 8 x hermits.
leather musroom, various other small soft coral. All livestock are eating and appear happy and well.
Tank and sump equate to 95 gallon, including 60+ kg of live rock. tank has been cycled more than 5 months. never seen ammonia since cycling.
I returned to my LFS today a with beaten up Bubble Tip Anenome, this is after only one week, the clown was so excited and has continualyy harrased this poor creature to submission and the blue spotted tang, i suspect, started to bite chunks out of it. The LFS is doing every thing he can to try to save hime but we suspect he is the cause of the ammonia and nitrite traces.
I carried out a 25% water change today, more tomorrow.
I am troubled by the high PH, even my fresh, 1 week aged water is giving a pH of 8.6.
The question is should i use buffer to bring it down to range, or is this acceptable, my LFS says that i should only do water changes and not use buffer. Since the shop closed before i tested the fresh water he isnt aware of my findings.
Best advice please.