High Alkaline water

Doomhammer69

Doomhammer69

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one thing I have been noticing is as my water sits in the bubbler tank, to off gas chlorine, the ph rises from 7.4 ish to well over 8.0, what is going on here?
 
Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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Carbon dioxide, chlorine, alkalinity, ph meters that dont caliberate for temp to name a few but water between 6 - 8 is generally quite standard, sometimes mines that high.

Chlorine gas is quite an old practice thesedays, most have moved to chloramines that dont off gas so to say...

I have very low alkalinity water, generally it needs over 1ec of base nutrients to keep it ph stable.
 
In Shape Vet

In Shape Vet

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idk what your goals are. but it sounds like you have the time to have water sitting out to mess with later. In the aquarium community, people use DRIFT WOOD to lower the pH naturally in their aquarium water. Since you have water sitting out, and if you can find a significant amount a great price, then you can have some of the wood soaking in your water. I would recommend experimenting with a small amount as im not sure how long the process takes. A few google searches should provide more insight as to what people with aquariums do naturally for their fish.
 
ThaMagnificent

ThaMagnificent

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Mine is like this and it's throwing my plants off badly causing all kinds of lockout. I know my roots are drinking it up as they've tripled in size but my pH jumps crazy high every 12hrs
 
Doomhammer69

Doomhammer69

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Thanks for all the input, I might not have been clear. I keep a 20 gallon tank full of water with a couple bubblers to get rid of the chlorine, so when it is time to water I have water ready.. does this make sense? However what I am finding (and yes to the gentleman who said use ph down) fo course I ph down??? All I am asking is does any one know why ph will jump up from just sitting, I keep a 50 gallon fish tank heater in the tank to keep the water at about 68 degrees. I hope that clears up any confusion.
 
Doomhammer69

Doomhammer69

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In Shape Vet said:
idk what your goals are. but it sounds like you have the time to have water sitting out to mess with later. In the aquarium community, people use DRIFT WOOD to lower the pH naturally in their aquarium water. Since you have water sitting out, and if you can find a significant amount a great price, then you can have some of the wood soaking in your water. I would recommend experimenting with a small amount as im not sure how long the process takes. A few google searches should provide more insight as to what people with aquariums do naturally for their fish.
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I have a 50 gallon tank up stairs and they are tropical so I do keep 2 pc's of drift wood in there I got from the fish lady. They seem to like it.
 
Doomhammer69

Doomhammer69

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Kingrow1 said:
Carbon dioxide, chlorine, alkalinity, ph meters that dont caliberate for temp to name a few but water between 6 - 8 is generally quite standard, sometimes mines that high.

Chlorine gas is quite an old practice thesedays, most have moved to chloramines that dont off gas so to say...

I have very low alkalinity water, generally it needs over 1ec of base nutrients to keep it ph stable.
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I live in Colorado, and we have some of the best fresh water. I called the water company here in the town I live and they informed me they only use chlorine no chloramines.
 
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