Low pH, high Alk

[Scryden]

As the title suggests, my test strips show a low pH (around 6.8) but high Alk (around 180). I'm trying to figure out how to lower Alk and raise pH but can't find a simple answer to this. pH Minus chemicals lower Alk but also lowers the pH even further. Using pH Plus raises Alk. What do I do in this case?

Thanks.

[Susanj]

I used to often have the opposite problem- high pH and low alkalinity , and what I did was I would raise both to get the alkalinity where I wanted it or actually even higher than necessary, and then I would use Spa Down,  which hopefully would bring the pH down more than it would bring the alkalinity down. It was a balancing act! 

[Couch67]

There's another subforum here where posts about water care are - look in the main forum for it.   Nitro and Waterbear have a few really good stickies on the subject. It mainly involves lowering your alkalinity a bit at a time, and turning on all the jets to increase pH. Its an iterative approach that takes time, but it works!