I have a 50 gallon, with a sump.
40 lbs of ecocomplete, 50 lbs of color quarts
35 lbs of slate rock
Lighting currently is 6 hours 48 watts of t-5 10000K, 2 hours 175 MH 6500K. I plan on making the lighting 4 hours each as soon as I get the co2 and pH stable, and the plants start filling in.
Current Parameters GH-5 KH-9 pH-5.85
I have pressurized CO2 going through a home made reactor (phos ban reactor filled with PVC pieces, flow in at the top and out through the bottom). I am pushing about 90 BPM. Drop Checker is a blue green color, so I would like more CO2. CO2 is on 60 min before lights and off 30 before they turn off.
The tank is 4 weeks old, has been planted for 2 weeks.
My first recorded pH was 7.4 day after day I see a drop in pH, measured first thing in the morning, after the lights have been off all night. the reading this morning was 5.82. This is via pH probe on my AC3. I have good surface flow, drop checker is not showing full green yet, and still the pH drops and stays down.
Is this something to worry about? Should I be doing something about the pH? I am doing weekly water changes from the tap. Water is run through a water softener (nothing I can do about that) and carbon filter.
Thanks,
Bryan
40 lbs of ecocomplete, 50 lbs of color quarts
35 lbs of slate rock
Lighting currently is 6 hours 48 watts of t-5 10000K, 2 hours 175 MH 6500K. I plan on making the lighting 4 hours each as soon as I get the co2 and pH stable, and the plants start filling in.
Current Parameters GH-5 KH-9 pH-5.85
I have pressurized CO2 going through a home made reactor (phos ban reactor filled with PVC pieces, flow in at the top and out through the bottom). I am pushing about 90 BPM. Drop Checker is a blue green color, so I would like more CO2. CO2 is on 60 min before lights and off 30 before they turn off.
The tank is 4 weeks old, has been planted for 2 weeks.
My first recorded pH was 7.4 day after day I see a drop in pH, measured first thing in the morning, after the lights have been off all night. the reading this morning was 5.82. This is via pH probe on my AC3. I have good surface flow, drop checker is not showing full green yet, and still the pH drops and stays down.
Is this something to worry about? Should I be doing something about the pH? I am doing weekly water changes from the tap. Water is run through a water softener (nothing I can do about that) and carbon filter.
Thanks,
Bryan