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Deckape and eco23 thanks a lot I will take this good advice, get a better API test set and do some frequent water changes of small amounts to slowly bring it up to something more reasonable while avoiding chemicals I thank you and my son thanks you (and the Corys thank you)

Thanks for all the time eco23 I'm glad to hear that we are in the right ball park otherwise. My suspicion is that we worked so hard with that pH down stuff to get to what the pH test was 7 in the bucket. I'm guessing that what we were really getting in that bucket was 6 - we certainly were...

pH followup eco23: We did not have the better test kit you suggested but used a dip strip and in the tank and got: nitrate: 40 ppm Nitrite: 0 ppm Total water Hardness: (something between 250 and 425) ppm total alkaline buffering capacity: 80 oom ph......... below labeled chart, guess at about...

Thanks eco23 I will get the numbers and post them tonight and do more research on cycling

pH Yes we always use neutral regulator which is supposed to handle the chorine and buffer the water then we test the ph in the bucket and its always high and it takes quite a bit of ph down to get it to the 7 range. Then we wait over night and test the bucket again. Then when the pH is good and...

thanks eco23 If I get your point: it would be better to have let the pH be high rather than push it down with pH down so that when I add new water it won't be a pH shock to the fish. I thought we were accomplishing that by getting the treated water to neutral at first then using pH down to get...

pH thanks for the help Each time he does a water change he checks the pH of the new treated water before he uses it. The test is done after he adds the neutral buffer and the pH down. He doesn't check the tap water pH before treating it anymore but he does check each batch when its "done." He...

This is for my son who is really the aquarium guy but he won't ask questions. His two freshwater tanks are going strong for a few months. One has 3 Gouramis and the other a whole bunch of Peppered Corys (I think that is how you spell it). The mom and dad kept laying eggs, my son kept putting...