Open windows, more ALK consumption?

[Drichards]

With the nice cool weather I've been keeping my windows open lately at my house. They've been shot all summer with the AC on. I've noticed my Alk consumption go way up. Normally I like to hover around 9 dkh. I test once a week and I've been getting readings of high 7s and low 8s. No new Coral added. I'm experiencing this on three systems, three separate Apex dose pumps. Is this common? My intuition tells me the pH has elevated causing more ALK Exchange. But I'm no scientist

 

[Drichards]

With the nice cool weather I've been keeping my windows open lately at my house. They've been shot all summer with the AC on. I've noticed my Alk consumption go way up. Normally I like to hover around 9 dkh. I test once a week and I've been getting readings of high 7s and low 8s. No new Coral added. I'm experiencing this on three systems, three separate Apex dose pumps. Is this common? My intuition tells me the pH has elevated causing more ALK Exchange. But I'm no scientist

Also if anyone knows how to program a manual dose in Apex, please DM me. This thing drives me nuts

 

[Cpage101]

With the nice cool weather I've been keeping my windows open lately at my house. They've been shot all summer with the AC on. I've noticed my Alk consumption go way up. Normally I like to hover around 9 dkh. I test once a week and I've been getting readings of high 7s and low 8s. No new Coral added. I'm experiencing this on three systems, three separate Apex dose pumps. Is this common? My intuition tells me the pH has elevated causing more ALK Exchange. But I'm no scientist

my ALK consumption is up also. my ph has been up as high as 8.47 which I assume this is the case. I had to turn up the Ca reactor a bit to keep up with the increased consumption.

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

Also if anyone knows how to program a manual dose in Apex, please DM me. This thing drives me nuts

@Cpage101 is an apex wizard

 

[Drichards]

@Cpage101 is an apex wizard

Need a college course to program this thing Paul

 

[Cpage101]

Need a college course to program this thing Paul

I assume you may need to make a virtual output to manual dose. I run a Ca reactor so never really messed with the dos programming.

 

[Drichards]

I assume you may need to make a virtual output to manual dose. I run a Ca reactor so never really messed with the dos programming.

I figured out after hours of talking to myself, yelling at the wife, just starring at for a while and walking in circles

 

[SteveDola]

My alk is going through the roof from the increased PH. I raised it last week and have to raise it again.

 

[afboundguy]

With open windows comes higher pH. Higher pH helps corals grow faster as there are less free hydrogen molecules in the water making it easier for corals to get rid of hyrdogen molecules which are the byproduct of skeletal growth. It allows corals to precipitar calcium carbonate so they grow faster as well.

Easiest way I remember is it's essentially osmosis. If there is less "bad stuff" in the tank water there is more room for the corals to put the "bad stuff" into the water so it's easier and faster for them to grown. If there is more of the "bad stuff" already in the water the corals have to work harder to shove the "bad stuff" into the water that is more saturated with the "bad stuff."