I got a new bucket of salt and for whatever reason the alk is really high. For reference, I'm using Tropic Marin Bio Actif. The approximate alk should be 8, and I've ran my tank at ~8.3 alk for the last 6 months as I used my last bucket.
Long story short, I realized after my last water change that my alk spiked and I hadn't tested the salt in the mixing bucket since I started my tank last October. I just tested the bucket and at 1.025 salinity is read at 9.9 alk. I know that Hanna checkers can be off by .3, but I guess this is why my alk spiked. I turned off my auto doser for Tropic Marin All For Reef last week since I didn't need the alk consumption of .5 per day that I normally used and I didn't want it to climb more.
Now to my question, this is the first coral I've added in two weeks from AquaSD (a dry spell for me) and I just tested the water before I started my drip and theirs tested at 7.3 alk. Normally I drip acclimate for ~30 mins for acros, 15 mins for LPS and never had issues. Since there is a larger gap in the alk from their tank to mine this time (7.3 to 9.6, where in the past the delta was whatever they ran their tanks at and 8.3) should I drip acclimate longer to not shock the tenuis I just got home with?
Long story short, I realized after my last water change that my alk spiked and I hadn't tested the salt in the mixing bucket since I started my tank last October. I just tested the bucket and at 1.025 salinity is read at 9.9 alk. I know that Hanna checkers can be off by .3, but I guess this is why my alk spiked. I turned off my auto doser for Tropic Marin All For Reef last week since I didn't need the alk consumption of .5 per day that I normally used and I didn't want it to climb more.
Now to my question, this is the first coral I've added in two weeks from AquaSD (a dry spell for me) and I just tested the water before I started my drip and theirs tested at 7.3 alk. Normally I drip acclimate for ~30 mins for acros, 15 mins for LPS and never had issues. Since there is a larger gap in the alk from their tank to mine this time (7.3 to 9.6, where in the past the delta was whatever they ran their tanks at and 8.3) should I drip acclimate longer to not shock the tenuis I just got home with?