woyeng**

I am very new to this hobby... call it my cross-over project from fresh to salty My 70gal tank is currently in its 2nd week of cycle with being cycled. Following some research, I m using a deep sand bed with live rocks (about 34kg based on 1lb per gal). I hope that have a Reef setup with corals and fish eventually but I understand from literature that we need to have a PH of between 8-8.3 for the Corals to thrive. The problem I noticed is that my current PH during cycling is only 7.2-7.4 (max)... So I hope that sifus here can help enlighten me whether my PH will come back up to 7.8-8 naturally after the tank is fully cycled and whether using baking soda is a sustainable long term solution because my idea of a nice hobby is to have limited maintenance especially in the area of alchemy ...