K PAS O reef addicts, a few things of interest I discovered recently.
Previously I mentioned that I was messing with my lights in an attempt to improve color and reduce the minor amount of red cyno I was seeing. Red cyno didn't make sense as I'm an over achiever when it comes to husbandry
. By reducing my reds and increasing the duration of my blues, I have almost eliminated my problem. Understand, I know all tanks are different and one solution may not work for other tanks, but I can see a benefit to what I did and my corals actually have more color.
moving on.........
I have had a ph ranges of 8.2 in the mornings to actually breaking over 8.6 at night for a while, crazy right
So I did some reading and it's almost impossible for a tank reading that high (I'm not getting into that).
I picked the brain of a forum member and a non forum member and as I was already doing at the time and the forum member advised.......... meh no big deal, unless I wanted to add a light to the refugium to have less of a swing. I subscribe to the same school of thought of the KISS method as the member
, and don't chase numbers.
My other person said hey, why don't ya try a recalibration, BOOM! I know, who woulda thunk that my apex PH monitor might be in need of re-calibration. Well, I am not to proud to admit a dumb moment and forgot to order the 7 solution with the 10. So, I check it with the 10 and was seeing 10.39 ish. Holy Bat guano my monitor is off. Re-ordered my 7 and 10 solutions and what did I learn
If something is not right it is generally a simple solution, don't try to outthink what's right in front of you...
Except maybe your kids
So, long story short my PH was off approx. .39 and after recalibration of the Apex probe my reading was 8.19
Have great week reefers
Sully