So this tank had a crash after using a particular water dechlorinator, which after reading more, I found is often an issue in low pH and low general hardness water.
72G with Fluval FX-5
So after the crash this is where I am at...
Ammonia 4ppm
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 0
pH 6 or less, as I can not check a lower amount due to the test only foes to 6 pH.
Temp is at 80F after completing 2 weeks heat treatment for Ich which appeared during the crash.
My plan is to do two 50% pwc. Just dosed Prime to help mitigate the issue until I can figure the rest of this out.
The KH isn't even 1 drop, it turned immediately to a almost pale blue then yellow, because I couldn't believe this I added 14 more drops and it just became more yellow.
GH I used 40 drops, yes 40 and it never turned green. Just a darker orange. The drops would be greenish for a part of a second and turn immediately yellow.
Should I take out all of the fish and put into a bucket, clean out all substrate, re rinse the filter which I did less than a month ago with treated water and start over again.
I had already added about one whole large cuttlebone powdered (calcium) and dissolved into the water and a half cup of Epsom salt (magnesium). To help stabilize the GH/KH. It obviously didn't work.
I added 3 possibly 4 doses of Top fin pH increaser, and it never made any change in the test over the course of 5 days.
All these test liquids properly measure the correct levels in the other tanks so it is not a bad test fluid issue for any of these parameters.
This happened around a month ago. Lost a bunch of fish and the survivors have been doing alright but now with the higher ammonia I need to get this solved ASAP.
If you have any questions I will answer the best I can
72G with Fluval FX-5
So after the crash this is where I am at...
Ammonia 4ppm
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 0
pH 6 or less, as I can not check a lower amount due to the test only foes to 6 pH.
Temp is at 80F after completing 2 weeks heat treatment for Ich which appeared during the crash.
My plan is to do two 50% pwc. Just dosed Prime to help mitigate the issue until I can figure the rest of this out.
The KH isn't even 1 drop, it turned immediately to a almost pale blue then yellow, because I couldn't believe this I added 14 more drops and it just became more yellow.
GH I used 40 drops, yes 40 and it never turned green. Just a darker orange. The drops would be greenish for a part of a second and turn immediately yellow.
Should I take out all of the fish and put into a bucket, clean out all substrate, re rinse the filter which I did less than a month ago with treated water and start over again.
I had already added about one whole large cuttlebone powdered (calcium) and dissolved into the water and a half cup of Epsom salt (magnesium). To help stabilize the GH/KH. It obviously didn't work.
I added 3 possibly 4 doses of Top fin pH increaser, and it never made any change in the test over the course of 5 days.
All these test liquids properly measure the correct levels in the other tanks so it is not a bad test fluid issue for any of these parameters.
This happened around a month ago. Lost a bunch of fish and the survivors have been doing alright but now with the higher ammonia I need to get this solved ASAP.
If you have any questions I will answer the best I can