Randy Holmes-Farley
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So come to find out my salinity was sky high... around 40ppt.
I got it down to 1.0256 and now my ph has shot up to 8.3 as a high.
A far cry from a high of around 7.9-8.
So was it the high salt levels that was making it drop so low???
Stupid calibration fluid!
Maybe. I showed recently that diluting tank water with fresh raises the pH above either solution before mixing , and one expects the reverse with higher salinity, although I don’t think the the effect is dramatic.