How to Higher High PH

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Have a powerhead blowing water along the serface um skimmer on air is the best way fuge light 247 with a lot of chato n I keep an airstone n my fuge as well
 
Mine was at 8 yestarday, and I use a thing called balance, it's in a big White bottle, it ups the ph without effecting the kh and the calcium levels, it took 2 doses (240l tank) it's very expensive £30 a bottle but you can treat 2000l with a 0.2 ph increase, just to give you an idea on how far it goes
 
If it`s 8 and it`s stable at 8 I would not worry about it. Stability is the key here.
 
I use a PH buffer I'n my tank. It brings my tank to a PH of 8.3 and won't go higher so no worries about overdosing! It's I'n powder form and just mix with ur water and dump I'n tank once a week to keep it there. Easy as pie! And stability at 8.3 I'n a reef tank is key! 8.0 and your asking for a healthy algae bloom!
 
Pizza101 said:
I use a PH buffer I'n my tank. It brings my tank to a PH of 8.3 and won't go higher so no worries about overdosing! It's I'n powder form and just mix with ur water and dump I'n tank once a week to keep it there. Easy as pie! And stability at 8.3 I'n a reef tank is key! 8.0 and your asking for a healthy algae bloom!

Sorry id trust x on this one
 
Well mine was at 8 the other day as I said 2 doses and its been at 8.2 for 2 days now, I test at night just before I turn the lights off, so it been the same so it does stabilise it, and not at the cost of your kh, good stuff IMO
 
While this is a true statement, algae can go into overdrive without he right PH In the tank phos. Levels get high much faster with a lower PH and an algae bloom is almost a sure thing. I guess to save from having an argument all I was saying is that a PH of 8.3 is the goal of most reefkeepers that I know. If 8.0 is working for you awesome! I also like to keep my salinity at 1.026 unlike some others that shoot for a little lower.
 
nope. you asked me to do some research and i found the opposite to be true.

"pH The pH range for most cultured algal species is between 7 and 9, with the optimum range being 8.2-8.7. Complete culture collapse due to the disruption of many cellular processes can result from a failure to maintain an acceptable pH. The latter is accomplished by aerating or mixing the culture. In the case of high-density algal culture, the addition of carbon dioxide allows to correct for increased pH, which may reach limiting values of up to pH 9 during algal growth."

http://www.growing-algae.com/algae-growing-conditions.html
 
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