Will removing Coral chips in ADA soil setup lower pH eventually?

[koonac]

Hi all, need some advice..
I've a 2ft tank currently running on a chiller connected to a Eheim 2026 maintaining at 25 degrees. Iniside my filter i have Biohome, Ceremic Rings and quite alot of Coral Chips. So far no casualities and the CRS are doing fine, but i realized after putting in the coral chips my PH went to 7.3 even with ADA soil. My GH went to 170ppm which is quite hard. Thus i removed the coral chips inside my filter, only leaving a few small pieces behind for the buffering and calcium for sucessful molting.
Will by this lower my PH eventually with the ADA soil inside? Or is there a better solution? I'm currently not injecting CO2..

[PLee]

removing the coral chips will certainly decrease the overall ph pf the tank.


By the way why you want to use coral chips together with ADA ???

[jiahe88]

koonac, from what i know coral chips is to lower PH if you're using lapis or normal soil. .if you are using ADA no need to use any coral chips.

[Lala~]

Jiahe , i thought coral chips causes the pH to rise ?

[YC-TEO]

koonac, from what i know coral chips is to lower PH if you're using lapis or normal soil. .if you are using ADA no need to use any coral chips.

Correct me if i am wrong.
For what i know coral chips will increase ph and harden the water too.

[Shadow]

Yeah coral chip is to icrease pH and harden the water

[jiahe88]

i keep on think is sera peat. hehe sorry. ya with ADA you will not need any coral chip to rise your PH as shrimp etc can take low ph. cheers

[koonac]

thanks for the replies guys..
so its safe to say after i removed all the coral chips my PH will go back to normal and my water will become soft again as i have ADA soil inside? cos my KH is only 2..

[Shadow]

ADA will make your kH drop to 1 or even 0 but don't worry about it

[koonac]

ok will monitor the water for 1 week.. see how it goes.. hopefully GH and PH will drop back to normal.. but the ironic thing is that, even with such hard water 1 of my CRS got pregnant..

[Aeon]

How much coral chips is needed to maintain the kH of 240L (4ft tank) at 3 to 5?
I like the idea of coral chips as it's less troublesome than dosing Ca/K carbonates.

And would that amount of coral chips provide enough calcium for let's say an iwagumi layout with low plant mass?