jameson_uk
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Sanata brought me a Seneye Reef which I figured would be a bit of a gimmick, something to play with and a cheap PAR meter.
When I first set it up the pH was a lot higher than I was expecting (about 8) when the API test had consistently being telling me the pH was about 7.4. The water company has pH in my area being between 7.1 and 8.4 with a mean of 7.4 (which I am guessing would be out the tap before anything has gassed off).
So you can see when I did the water change (lowest point is at 3pm on 1st and then pH rises until about 6pm on 2nd and starts to rise again about noon on 3rd; which is when the lights come on).
So this gets me thinking...
I am not going to chase pH or get too worked up about about this but I am interested in whether this looks sensible and whether I should be looking at changing my water change process to avoid this big shift?
When I first set it up the pH was a lot higher than I was expecting (about 8) when the API test had consistently being telling me the pH was about 7.4. The water company has pH in my area being between 7.1 and 8.4 with a mean of 7.4 (which I am guessing would be out the tap before anything has gassed off).
So you can see when I did the water change (lowest point is at 3pm on 1st and then pH rises until about 6pm on 2nd and starts to rise again about noon on 3rd; which is when the lights come on).
So this gets me thinking...
- Presumably the increase after the water change is just the CO2 added by the water company gassing off? (I am sure when I did a test by leaving tap water in a bucket with an air stone it did not change this much)
- Why does the pH start dropping at about 6pm? The lights are on until 8pm and as I can see on the 3rd, the pH goes up when the lights come on (presumably because plants start consuming the CO2)
- Would that swing of 0.8pH actually be dangerous to the inhabitants?
I am not going to chase pH or get too worked up about about this but I am interested in whether this looks sensible and whether I should be looking at changing my water change process to avoid this big shift?