Thanks everyone for your help. You've provided a great deal of informative info. MT79 thanks for the site. Really helpful. I plan on ordering the starter kit. It looks like the kit provided by TwoPartSolutions has everything I need. Enough to initially raise the levels, three extra two gallon kits, three one gallon jugs and dispensing pumps. I just need to read a little more about the pumps.
My PH has been at 8.4 for every test except one. The lone time it wasn't at 8.4 was an 8.0 reading which was taken during the day when the lights weren't on. I've tested weekly for the last 5 months using the Salifert ph test kit. Because the ph levels are on the high side I will go with recipe 2.
Also, I've continued to test the CA levels daily and I'm losing 5 to 10 ppm each day, plus I have not gotten it over 400.