Hi everyone! I finally got the PH below 6 long term…it is currently around 4.5 (I did the 40% water change yesterday). I used 1.25 ml of the aforementioned API PH down – easily enough to neutralize all the carbonates that the tank acquired from simple gas exchange. This also sent the conductivity shooting up to about 47 microsiemens/29 ppm TDS in the tank…thankfully the tank will now produce carbonates much more slowly due to its lower PH, so I will not need to add nearly as much acid (and thus conductivity/TDS) next time to keep the PH down.
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