[AquaticLife] My new tank chemistry
Allie1068,
I agree those symptoms are signs of other shock issues as well but since she had such a high pH, I was just pointing that out. Most people know about acclimating them to temperature but they aren’t told about the other water parameters affecting the fish also… things like ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, hardness, etc.
Fish get used to bad water over time, slowly as it gets bad and need to be acclimated back to good water slowly also… so unless it’s an emergency contamination, it’s better to do a series of 25% PWC’s every couple of hours rather than one large 50% PWC to 100% change.
I’m curious about your comment about pH affecting O2 levels. I haven’t heard of that and I’m not sure how pH would affect O2 levels, per se. I realize that things that can affect the pH can have an effect on O2 levels but it’s not the pH, per se, that affects the O2 levels… at least not from all I’ve learned. Can you elaborate?
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