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    Posted: February 03 2014 at 5:47pm
After 2 years of my PH ranging very nicely from 8.2 to 8.4 starting late last night I'm having a spike that has reached 8.83! 

Two questions.... how dangerous is this level....

and What might make it spike. All other parameters are fine and I can't detect anything wrong. I dose but have it turned off now and have for a month.




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Are you measuring Ph with a Ph probe? How old is it? Could have gone bad if everything else is ok and nothing has changed with the tank.
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the first thing I would do is to grab some calibration fluid, a 7 and a 10 packet from whatever LFS is the closest and recalibrate your probes.  A weird change in a monitored parameter without any physical change to the tank  reeks of a probe going bad, or out of calibration.  if it reads the two calbration fluid right, and you still have a spike, I would probably take it to someone else around yhou that has a probe and take a jar of water to them and see what their probe reads.  IF it really did spike, there has to be something causing it.  But i would confirm all reading before acting on it.
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LOL... BMAC2.... thats a pretty no-brainer of a suggestion.. thanks! I have calibration fluid so off I go to check the probe!


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Well.... the probe just needed a good clean. The end somehow got stuffed bull of junk. I normally clean it every 3 months.... but apparently it was in dire need now. Thanks BMAC2.... good call!
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Lol looks like me and bmac posted at the exact same time. What are the odds?    Glad you got it figured out.
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excellent.  the probes for ORP and for pH both are pretty damn touchy, I don't care what brand or how much you spend on them.  They get dirty just a little bit and go nuts.
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