Help High pH!!!!

I just dosed my first time with Kalkwasser and my pH is somewhere between 8.4 and 8.8 :eek: .
How do I get it to come down, a water change????? :confused:
I was wondering why my mushrooms were shedding there mucus all day so I did a test and the ph has gone up. It is usually at 8.2.
HELP HELP HELP
It is strange though my corals despite the pH have never look better.
HELP what do I do.
They are all going to die aren't they.
******************! :mad:
I had the drip rate at about one or less per second.
Adam :mad: :eek: :confused: :(
[ August 27, 2001: Message edited by: sammystingray ]
 

andymi

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8.4 - 8.8 is kind of a wide range. I would say you are probably somewhat safe at around the 8.4-8.5 mark. I have seen readings this high in the past with little to no troubles. I would think anything higher than 8.5 is too high. Depending on the way you did the kalkwasser drip will probably explain why the levels are out of whack.
--A
 
Ok Saturday I mixed the kalk and never used it that day. I finall put it into the aquadose aroun 5 pm yesterday. What I did was I had mixed 2.5 gallons and used three tsp. I siphoned it out in the middle. when the water level was about a cm that was when I stopped.
But during the filling process I lost about 1 gallon because I was an idiot and forgot to plug the hole with the iv tube.
Then I put the end into the sump and dripped it about a drip a sec. and the main container was on the window sill.
Adam
 
I know that BurNSPY.
All I wanted to know was should I do a water change or is there a better way to get the salinity to come down.
Adam
 
I had used the kalk yesterday becuase the water level was so LOW that bubbles were being shot into the tank from the sump pump.
I HAVE done research and I even read the directions on the Kalk container and for the aquadose
Adam
 
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