Deminox
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10 gallon tank 8 tetras 2 sword plants 1 moss ball, dense (about 1.5 inches) colored substrate, 1 filter (aqueon 10) 1 airstone. 1 piece of driftwood. 2 small horned nerite snails.
Ph from tap is 7.5 to 7.6. Almost all tetras died, didn't add them until after cycled. Ph tested 7.6 before adding. Ph tested 8.4 after tetras wiped out.
Added ph down, waited 24 hours. Ph was 8.2, surviving tetras still alive. Added ph down, ph tested 8.0. Tetras alive. Added ph null, half dose one day, half dose the next. Ph tested 7.8.
Added 4 more tetras (to a total of 6, since so many had died.) Ph stayed at 7.8 all tetras alive.
Ph started rising again. 8.0 this morning. No water change during this time due to tap being such a huge ph difference (don't want to put fish into shock by adding in 7.6 ph water when tank is in the 8's.)
Why in a cycled tank is the ph on rapid rise? Tank temp is 78° for neons. Well lit. Full light spectrum. Still have some brown algea bacteria.
Also, have my big 29gal goldfish tank, ph is stable 7.6 in that. Same water source when changing water.
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Ph from tap is 7.5 to 7.6. Almost all tetras died, didn't add them until after cycled. Ph tested 7.6 before adding. Ph tested 8.4 after tetras wiped out.
Added ph down, waited 24 hours. Ph was 8.2, surviving tetras still alive. Added ph down, ph tested 8.0. Tetras alive. Added ph null, half dose one day, half dose the next. Ph tested 7.8.
Added 4 more tetras (to a total of 6, since so many had died.) Ph stayed at 7.8 all tetras alive.
Ph started rising again. 8.0 this morning. No water change during this time due to tap being such a huge ph difference (don't want to put fish into shock by adding in 7.6 ph water when tank is in the 8's.)
Why in a cycled tank is the ph on rapid rise? Tank temp is 78° for neons. Well lit. Full light spectrum. Still have some brown algea bacteria.
Also, have my big 29gal goldfish tank, ph is stable 7.6 in that. Same water source when changing water.
This post brought to you by.. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD