Many of the PetsMart fish are the bottom of the barrel fish from breeders since PetsMart wants the best/lowest prices on what they buy. Most breeders will keep the best fish for themselves, the next best would go to their closest friends who are also breeders, then to their local customers, aquarium societies, LFS […]
Be careful of advise from your LFS… if they don’t even know what’s in your local water… or maybe you just got an ill-informed employee.
This thread has been trimmed too much but if I remember right, your FW tanks had a pH of 7.2… right? If your 48 hour baseline is only coming […]
By in front of I meant closest to the outtake on the filter, after re-reading my post I thought it may sound confusing.
Amber
Amber Berglund wrote: > > On a side note I thought I would let people know that the 10 gallon kits > that walmart sells now have a little “bio” insert in […]
On a side note I thought I would let people know that the 10 gallon kits that walmart sells now have a little “bio” insert in front of the normal cartridge so that you can just remove the carbon and not hurt your beneficial bacteria residing on the 2nd cartridge (looks like […]
Ooops.. didn’t look at your specific numbers.. only that you asked if the Prime would make the pH go up. The tap water likely went up for the reason I previously stated about the CO2 outgasing.
As far as your tank’s pH going down… that is normal. ALL tank’s pH will go down as […]
Hi Len, Posting here rather than direct in case someone else needs the help on the same issue. I could have sworn that you gave a link for Plant Geek to search for plants by using a pH factor????????????? I went all over their site and yes, registered for the forum, and still cannot […]
i don’t have any plants, should i get some and if yes what type is best for low-medium light? no rocks, no coral, no shells, only the one decoration that came with the tank and i added a piece of wood yesterday for the aquarium, bought it at the fish store Aquarius, scrubbed it then […]
Well, lets see what the 48 hour baseline tests turn out to be on your tap water before making any assumptions about your final baseline figures.
As far as changing your water, NO… there is no need to change anything with your water.
Your KH is a little low, but you can use Baking Soda or other […]
The level of KH, and with its resultant effect on GH, your partially- related GH’s level as well — and the amount of crushed coral to be used to maintain this KH (as previously stated) — will both be dependant upon the factors/components of your water which will be counteracting this buffering […]
Ray,
thanks for your reply. What level of GH and KH should I have in the tank to avoid sudden PH drops? The current PH=6.6 is fine for my fish, but I’d like to add enough buffering capacity to keep the PH at the current or slightly higher level. My plan would be […]