What I want for Christmas, an all in one system that will take care of my tank params automatically. It's no secret that I've been fighting low PH and ALK for a while now. I've vented the skimmer to the outside...which helped a little, but not enough. So I ordered up some dosing pumps, a BRS 2 part kit, and started playing with it trying to get things in line. Since this is my first rodeo with dosing, I guess I'm looking for a little reassurance that I'm going about this right, and that I interpreted what I read correctly.
Tank Specs
Temp: 78
Salinity: 1.024 - it's slipped a little and will be corrected with the next water change.
PH: 7.79
Alk: 7.168
Cal: 535
Mag: 1200
I've been dripping Alk daily, takes arouns 2 hours to drip in, and while I can get it to temporarily come up, I can't seem to get it to stabilize, and my PH always falls to around 7.5 to 7.6. I started dosing a ounce, then two, and tonight I dosed 3 oz. Am I going about this correctly or all wrong. Once I got my Alk and Ph stabilized and I see my calcium fall, I would start dosing it in conjunction with the Alk and try to keep all levels stable. I would also switch over to my dosing pumps at that time.
Thoughts...... ?
Scott