Hey guys,
I've noticed that everytime my wife starts cooking and fires up the stove or the oven the ph in the tank plummets.
She loves to cook, so this is a common occurence. I know I know, its hard to complain about being provided with delicious food everyday!
I'm sure the problem is the gases produced from the gas range and oven. Carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide levels rising in the house must be the cause.
The result is pretty dramatic, the ph will usually drop about 2 to 3 tenths of a point, for example today it went from 8.1 to 7.8 in the hour she was cooking dinner. As my wife's favorite hobby is cooking and baking, she will sometimes spend the entire day in the kitchen on the weekends with something new going in the oven every hour. On days like that, the ph falls off a cliff sometimes all the way from 8.2 to 7.4!
Opening the windows helps a little, but now that its getting closer to winter that doesn't seem to be an option.
Anyone have any ideas here? Ever experienced the same thing?
For a little background here: my tank is pretty new, 90 gallons, 5 months old. I dose 2 part using brs dosing pumps and manually dose phyto plankton daily. I have a refugium with chaeto that is lit 24/7 to help fight the nightly ph swings.
I don't dose anything else to maintain ph. Is there a buffer I should be adding to help maintain a healthy ph? Should I run my skimmer's air intake outside?
Edited by speyside712 - November 17 2017 at 9:49pm