Emergency- alk rising and ph dropping to dangerous level - complete tank crash

[Turkeysammich]

Hit me up if you don’t have enough help. I’m not close but if you really need. Let me know

 

[popper]

Switching gear to restart.

I wonder if anyone available this or next weekend willing to help. I can compensate with $$, beers, pizza etc

I’m in Santa Clara. I would love to get it setup again over a weekend. Since we are draining the tank, perfect time to get the tank level. Can’t do this by myself.

I'm available on Sunday.

 

[newfly]

Thanks @popper and all.

I’ll hold off reset for this week. Tank seems to be doing better today. Cloudiness is mainly cleared. Alk stabilizing. I’ll give it a few more days to see how it goes.

 

[MichaelB]

Thanks @popper and all.

I’ll hold off reset for this week. Tank seems to be doing better today. Cloudiness is mainly cleared. Alk stabilizing. I’ll give it a few more days to see how it goes.

Hopefully you are able to work through it. I think it would save time if you could clear this hurddle.

 

[newfly]

Alk seems be in line. Ph is still very low at 7.2. Salifert and alkatronic is more or less the same. Even my temp 10g holding tank is showing ph is 7.4 .

Plenty of surface agitation, protein skimmer on, window open most of the day( except for mid afternoon ) .

I started dosing kalk to maintain the alk . I believe this will help but not by much. Fresh saltwater mix ph is ~8 . What can possibly cause drastic drop in ph? No fish left in the main tank. Some corals remains.

What should my next course of action?

Ignite the low ph? The fact that the temp holding tank is showing low ph is more puzzling.

 

[derek_SR]

Are you sure it’s not the probe? Do you have another way to test ph?

I don’t think 7.2 is even possible, mathematically, unless your alk is incredibly low.

 

[H2OPlayar]

Ignore the ph.

Make sure salinity and temp are good, the rest will follow.

 

[newfly]

Are you sure it’s not the probe? Do you have another way to test ph?

I don’t think 7.2 is even possible, mathematically, unless your alk is incredibly low.

I have the manual salifert ph test kit.

 

[MichaelB]

I have the manual salifert ph test kit.

Based on this subject coming up on a few threads here recently I been watching a few videos. I saw this one this morning and gave me a fair over view of ph. As @derek_SR implied a common theme mentioned in the video was equipment issues are the problem most of the time. So make sure everything is good before taking any drastic action. It was a highly informative video to me anyway.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Probes….
Clean and calibrate often
Replace yearly

Live by them…die by them