Club Tank at pH 8.6

[Tropical-Paradise-Ed]

I'll be there at noon tomorrow with water for a change if anyone else wants to show up.

Greg Ketell

[dwarfatize]

I will try and get down there. Wow 8.6 that is high.

[gketell]

8.6 was as high as the kit would read.... It looked darker than anything on the kit-chart.

We lost the big rock of xenia and another rock of some other soft coral. And the water is low enough that the skimmer doesn't appear to be doing anything.

I also cleaned out as many of the bubble-algae and hair-algae as I could.

GK

[73ChargerFan]

Yeah, I noticed all the evil algae the day of the frag trade, but only when it was time to walk out the door.

[RustySnail]

UH... Generally it's pretty hard to force pH levels up that high; what's going on? Are we dripping kalk or something? If it's that high; then there must have been a 'snowstorm' in there too; and yes a major water adjustment is needed...

[bookfish]

I'd suspect a ph reading that high. If stuff died in the tank it would bring the ph down, not up.-Jim

[gketell]

I double checked it with a new test kit from Eddie, it was 8.6. It also stunk to high heaven (probably the rotting xenia).

After 40 gallon water change yesterday it was down to 8.2-8.3.

GK

[bookfish]

Thanks for taking this on Greg!-Jim

[crystalball]

these are old lessons... gradualy increase a bio load! unfortuantly I do not live close enough to maintain the tank, but setting up the tank for lower maintainance might be where we need to go, the glass needs to be cleaned every day, as with all tanks especially those that are in public view, but if we export enough nutients, water changes are not nessasary, and the tank stops algae cycles. glass cleaning is minumum work and this is a vary viable project.