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Okay how much bicarbonate would you advise to add to begin with? Its 30 gallon tank and 8.2 pH is the about max for fancies I think.

Okay so you think just full water change, add coral and dose ammonia as normal until 4>0ppm in 24 hrs.

Okay, The tap water I tested was left out for over 24 hours so that is definitely the pH. I do live in Northern Ireland in a very soft water area. I bought some of this which I was advised last time I was here: Coral Sand Marine Aquarium Substrate 4k Is this okay to use to buffer?

Hi again Tested tap KH, GH and pH today. Tetra test strips are showing KH at 0, GH at 0 and pH is at 6.4. Are those 0's for KH and GH normal? Seems kind of odd even though I retested several times and always got the same.

Okay thanks everyone - I'll test KH and tap pH tomorrow and we'll see how it goes.

Hi guys I'm not sure exactly where to go from these results. I began cycling my 30 gallon tank back at the end of august, by October I thought it was close to done but unfortunately family matters meant I have not had access to the tank since then. Every time I've been around I've added a little...