Is that a good thing or a bad thing? :P

@@ReefDudes I don't really want to keep doing things to the tank. I'm not trying to experiment on it, I just want to do what I think is best for the animals. I just got a few brightwell bottles to start adding in some goodies, its going to look very familiar lol

Thats a solid PH! i dream of mine being that high!

Oh its coming! :)

Having 3 tubes distributes it so the air flows smooththly. Hehee the goal with it was to go along time without changing it (since it lives in the attic)

@@ReefDudeshi. i used to have the same issue with my ph and a brs reactor brong my ph from 8.01 to 8.45 on day time and 8.2 at night. i got the soda lime from ebay for $104 shipped for 5 gl. it will last me 14 month. i even needed to put on a solenoid to stop from scrubbing when it goes higher the 8.45. and i connected both input and output on the actual skimmer drilled a hole on the lid of the skimmer. work great tried everything and nothing worked like the scrubber love it. hey thanks for responding good luck 👍

It’s more about having your corals thrive in captivity. For many years we have imported corals directly from oceans and corals have adapted.

Well my skimmer is before chaeto so it technically still makes it there

I haven’t used their new one but do a similiar diy mix But i also use as an alk Simms for. Not sure how it would do it without upping kh

@ReefDudes I've been binge watching all your ph journey videos lately. Have watched you for the last few years, you and BrS 👌 I've got the same peninsula waterbox as you. Have you got a video on your current hydroxide dosing method?

Makes sense! Thanks for the explanation! This is all new territory for me.

It did eat through it eventually. You would have to change it more often or dilute it down much more. (Or run neoprene Tubing) through it.

That’s kind of what I was afraid of, I’m not sure if there’s an easy way to add chemical resistant tubing to the Versa pumps since they have push to connects prebuilt in. Thanks for the feedback!

@@TrevorHiller i thought about removing the built in connectors and putting one long continuous hose though it.. may or may not work :P may slowly shift over time .. maybe zap straps would keep in place? not sure..

@@ReefDudes hmmm 🤔 not a bad idea. My gears are spinning now. Thanks

Happy for your growth. Will love to know how you keep your pH there.

@@leoL3383 I don’t add anything to adjust my ph specially. It’s just where my tanks ph sits naturally.

Higher pH = faster rate of calcification = more mineral demand

That’s my miyagi tort

@@ReefDudes thank you

Vasco Jardim what happens when they sell you these corals use to 8.3 ph and your ph is barely eight ?

@@theideaofclips5481 good point. Actually, one of the things that I have never understood on the subject of not acclimating acropora, something most of the experts do.

For this situation Acclimating would do nothing unless you spent months acclimating. That big of a ph swing would be bad 8.3 to 7.89 water. I strongly believe some these corals just kill over because of issues like this. My ph stays in between 8.23and 8.17at night and I’m happy with it. Refugium light come on for 16 hours keeping it in the range. Most of my par for corals is distributed between the eight hours the refugium is off.

@@theideaofclips5481 corals come from an ocean avg of 8.3 every time they are imported. It’s more about the corals thriving in captivity and not just surviving. Corals are kept in various conditions from exporter to importer to store to hobbyists. Most survive and are kept in various conditions.

@@aciaquaculture Hello Chris, is this your recipe? 😊 3 drops / 5 sec (12drops/min) 2200 gal 8360 liter / 600liter = 13.9 = 13.9 / 12 = 0.9 drop/min in 600liters system (Mix 30% KOH 70% RODI) Yes / no / let’s go?

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I read the same article I think this newly described method that Chris is describing is a competing method. As you’re not constantly dosing KOH but using it as a buffer and monitoring the K level

@@anthonyrodriguez2570 the real concerning part is that, Chris is dosing KOH without acknowledging/realizing that it supplies alkalinity as well. If it's framed as using alk supplement to buff pH, which is exactly what he's doing, it would sound crazy. Yet he skipped that part and all the sudden it sounds compelling.

@@zsxking it’s not framed that way because the guy has no idea what he’s doing or talking about and newbies are going to hear 30% more growth and I guarantee they’ll want to try it also not understanding it. I called them out about this in a comment and all I get called is disrespectful because he’s a coral farmer. Apparently that makes you immune from scrutiny on your awful inaccurate info, he talks about achieving ionic balance when this does exactly the opposite, alk up, k up, calc down.

@@zsxking right I completely agree Any hydroxide breaks down and becomes bicarbonate I think this is where integrating Randy’s method for addition and experimenting from that know starting point would be the route I would go as well as regular Alk testing. I wish I had an Alktronic or something for automated testing to make sure things aren’t going to out of bound.

Did you do a follow up on the potassium hydroxide dosing? I have the same problem as discussed, while dosing Kalk 2 gallon a day to keep my ph around 8.3, my evaporation can’t keep up… (and my salinity drops) so I need a more potent solution to combine with a dally 1 gallon 12.0 ph Kalk solution. Any suggestions? = start slowly? 1 drop/30min 1/3 mix potassium hydroxide mix and see what happens 😱? 160gl system…

caoh 1.5g per 1 liter， koh 100g/liter， 66 times more （oh）

@@endersleeCAOH is not very concentrated true, but it raises ca and alk without adding salt. What is the difference KOH compared to NAOH? I can't think of a good reason to link my K and my alk supplimemtation like with KOH.

I have debated trying that one. or possibly a blend of the two. future experiments!

@@ReefDudes perhaps future KZfaq material ;)

This was a serious question btw

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Show some respect for a reefer that touches more corals in a week than you will your entire life, the chemical formula doesnt matter as long as you understand the effects actions have on your reef

@@ricardocarneiro7797 Just because he touches more corals in a week doesn’t garner my respect, nor should it. It’s not just that he doesn’t know the chemical formula, he straight up DOESN’T understand the effect on the reef, he sat there saying CaOH shouldn’t have any effect on alkalinity. That’s clearly not understanding the effect, as you put it.

@@daeliesreef5213 You dont have to be a scientist to share your findings. At the end of the day if coral is growing much faster its a good thing.. regardless of if you know the exact science behind it. Its some solid anecdotal results! I will would be thrilled if my corals started growing 30%+ faster!

@@daeliesreef5213 what he meant is having higher PH stops the loss of alkalinity in order to compensate for the carbonic acid created at lower ph. We all dose buckets of alkalinity solution into our tanks to make up for the fact we have lower ph and more hydrogen and CO2 than we should in home reeftanks, hydroxides from kalwasser will react with the CO2 in the water to form bicarbonates this is the bit it was missing from his explanation, but this is not necessarily what he was trying to convey which was that at a higher ph you will need to dose less alkalinity buffer because there is less dkh lost to buffer acidic water

@@ReefDudes Anecdotal evidence is great. That's not what I'm saying. He spent half the video talking about how his alk shot up and he has no idea why. There's several minutes of him explaining this (wrongly) to viewers that will think, "oh hey, he's a coral farmer, he must know what he's talking about," and this misinformation gets passed on and anyone that might try this will have no idea about the ionic imbalance created by dosing this. Anecdotal results are great, spreading bad information isn't.