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MY PH keeps dropping on me. I'm using Dichlor as my daily sanitizer and MPS to shock weekly. Is the daily dichlor the culprit for dropping my PH? It seems like when I do my weekly maintainence my PH has dropped to 6.8 from about 7.4 or 7.6 I add a healthy capfull of PH up and a week later it's back to 6.8 What's the deal?
What's the alkalinity reading? This is what locks the PH into place. Although for my water I don't worry too much about it, you still need to get it into the proper range. My Ph and alkalinity go up and down together, that's why I don't worry about it.Dichlor doesn't affect the PH too much ... it's the MPS, it's PH is about 4. I believe if alkalinity is too high, PH will go up as wellPost some numbers on alkalinity!
QuoteWhat's the alkalinity reading? This is what locks the PH into place. Although for my water I don't worry too much about it, you still need to get it into the proper range. My Ph and alkalinity go up and down together, that's why I don't worry about it.Dichlor doesn't affect the PH too much ... it's the MPS, it's PH is about 4. I believe if alkalinity is too high, PH will go up as wellPost some numbers on alkalinity!My Alk and PH, like yours go up and down together. As far as the MPS goes, I was told by a HS rep that the MPS in nuetral or nearly nuetral, not the dichlor, but in reading numerous posts, everyone seems to have their own opinion or experience with dichlor, MPS and how they affect/don't affect the PH. My Alk is usually a little low, around 180 but I bring it up to over 200 during my weekly maint.