How old is the tank? What are the rest of your readings? Ph can change for lots of reasons, you can look at the water the wrong way and the Ph will change lol but maintaining a good balance of the other chemicals will promote the Ph to stay where it is. if you are doing bi-weekly water changes id say the the salt levels could be fluctuating causing the Ph to change.
One tank is six months. The other is roughly six months now because that one had a crash due to a pump malfunction. After the crash I saw some coraline grow. I have the water changes just to keep a good balance of trace elements. I’m getting good diatoms or whatever brown algae this stuff is. It’s not like brown diatom slimy type of algae but it just looks like coraline but dirt
the existing coraline wont spread
this is nice. Ill look into it and save my money until something pops up. Im just really intrigued on how much my pH fluctates during the weekdays as in the weekends I am more in my roomHere is a screenshot of some of the graphs on my iPad. I have way too many to get in a single shot but you can scroll up and down on the page to get to the one you want. You can create your own pages like I did and select what inputs and outputs are displayed on the page. The 42g pH graph here is from my X3. The 42g sampled pH is from my X10. It is in the iV and is used for alkalinity testing but does give a sampled pH reading at the beginning of alkalinity testing.
the tank was a year old and still had no sort of coraline algae growth or even a hint of it. I even had frags that had coraline as well. I am using mobius AB+ I believe and on my other tank I have a custom preset with my AI. I am just suprised after my tank crash there was coraline growing underneath one of my acrylic frag plug holders after two months and now it is slowly fading awayPatience. 6 months is nothing in this hobby as far as tank maturity is concerned. pH seems to have become a new fad the last couple of years. Personaly I don't even check pH much less monitor it but I'm a simple reefer.
Yea, I stopped testing awhile back because I just got tired of trying to bring it up so I swapped over to water changes and everything seemed fine. I just get these, brown algae looking stuff on my rockwork? It doesnt look like diatoms its just, rock that looks like was dropped in dirt and rinsed one time?Have you tested pH to verify its even low? Some tanks don't grow coraline and some grow it fast enought it's nuisance but I've never heard pH mentioned when its being discussed but maybe it is related
Rock isn't going to stay white.
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I like this. I have not bought anything. Rn I’m just riding out this cope pod wave I’m on rn. College kid and my good job eliminated my position so now I’m a line cookDid you end up buying something?
This is a great price on a MC120, I recently purchased and its great
MC120 PH Monitor w/Probe & Mounting Kit - Milwaukee Instruments
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listen, I invested in a launch, absolutely love the ability to monitor in real time from anywhere, it has a Ph and Temp probe included when you buy it new. Hydros also has the wave engine and the ATO attachments, I like the way I can link up and command everything. Plus, and I say this as I have a hard time talking about the Maven costing around $1200, I cannot wait for it to come out, the bugs reduced, and price dropped.
