Did some tank maintenance today.
Tested tanks for pH. It ranged a large amount.
72G 7.
46G yellow so not exactly positive but 6.0 or less. Added some magnesium for the fish wellness and some Replenish to get the number to register on the pH test. The Angels would be fine but the Catfish and the Serpaes low is 6.0 and I would like a little more so I can know at least it is 6.0.
PRL 12G Shrimp was 6.0 or below and added a tiny amount of Replenish for the fish.
Wine Glass vase tank with the Seriyu stones was 7.5
5G Spec V was 7.0
Water out of the tap was 7.0 with out sitting around.
Anyway...
Fish in the 46G seem to be on the mend. Did a 60% pwc and vac. Cleaned the glass and there are a bunch of the plants getting dark algae like diatoms maybe will get a couple snails. also the Water wisteria turned all pale and was starting to brown/melt. Maybe not enough pH? Or it didn't like the meds.
Have a Purigen pouch I am trying out the recharging on and it looks really white. Second or 3rd round of Prime. Just a wee bit nervous.
Things otherwise seem to be going alright. I just brought home 4 new male Guppies for the Wine Glass. A pearl body yellow, a lyre tail snakeskin (barely pointed ends of the tail but not fan or spade), a Japanese Blue Swordtail Guppy, and a pearly pink rose with a tint of blushed apricot.
Although I wanted a couple additional ones, I was hoping to not overload the sponge filter for the bioload. I will test the tank tomorrow before its pwc.
The 46G had barely 10 Nitrates and 0 Nitrites
The 72G had abit over 40 I'd say 50-60, so treated the with a dose of Prime and will do their pwc tomorrow, and maybe a filter cleanout if I can manage to get the time.
Made 10G of RO water and got all the tanks topped off and have 6G ready to use for the next couple weeks.
Pwc done on the 2 SW nano display tanks.
Water change on the pond.
Had to add water to some SW macroalgae I have in a bucket ouside for the last couple weeks almost all the water evaporated and the Chaeto was still green, so I added more water and we will see if it keeps growing.
Hoping to get to the other lfs to pick up 20G of SW. It takes so long to make RO with my small unit, so I doubt I will make my own until I get the bigger tank, and even then maybe not.
It looks like my Carbon Rilli Shrimp does not have eggs anymore, or there is an additional Shrimp I didn't see before, so I wonder if there are a few babies or if she lost them. Of course hoping I have them in the moss!