As a new spa owner I'm trying to follow the directions to get my spa water as perfect as I can. I'm using the Leisure time test strips that came with the chemicals package and have got everything in the ideal range except the pH. For some reason the pH color is blurry and hard to read, but as close as I can tell it's between 8.0 to 8.4. How do I go about lowering the pH to it's ideal point without lowering my Alk. The chemicals that came with the spa has a pH/Alk up, and a pH/Alk down, so I'm concerned that if I use the pH/Alk down I will then mess up my Alk range. I was told to always adjust the Alk first, which I did, but now what should I do?