Thread: Ph 7.8 to 8.0 NORMAL?
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Old 12/19/2007, 08:39 AM
Randy Holmes-Farley Randy Holmes-Farley is offline
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Unless your alkalinity is very high, or your pH measurement is off, I'd worry strongly about pH 7.6. Calcium carbonate (read coral skeletons) in normal seawater will slowly dissolve under those conditions.
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