Trident/DOS dosing and Alk swings

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Howdy!

Hopefully an appropriate place to post.

I've noticed over the last week or so my Alk has started to swing a fair bit from low of 8.46 to high of 9.05 with my set point 8.6

I've adjusted the dosing baseline to the average over the last month and just today increased my testing from 4/2 to 6/3 in hopes this will help reduce the fluctuations.

Nothing new in the tank at all.

Anyone have any input on my swings??

Thank you all!!!

Additionally, I notice a lot of people dose Alk and Ca at equal amounts. When I've done this I noticed a lot of precipitation and my Ca continuously increasing. So now I dose at 55ml Alk and 12ml Ca with Trident adjusting ±30%.

My question here is, does Alk and Ca have to be dosed at the same amounts?

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