baken456
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Ok...so I'm the owner of a new 10 gallon fish tank that's ben running for a little over a week. I got my water tested yesterday, the ammonia was .1 the nitrite and nitrate was 0, chlorine was 0, but the ph was off the charts. The guy just said it was 8.4 since that was the highest reading he could give. He still sent me home with one "strong looking" guppy to see how he does and some aqueon ph minus. It's only been a day but the ph is still very high and the activity of my guppy has decreased. He doesn't swim much, kind of just let's the current move him, and he's hanging out at the top of the tank a lot. I was wondering if maybe I could help the ph decrease by doing a 25% water change and replacing it with half treated tap and half bottled? I really don't want the fish to die even tho it's looking that way, I just need a way to fix the ph since there is nothing else wrong with the water. Any help would be great, and I need it soon. If it helps at all, I used tap water to fill the tank, treated it with dechlorinator and QuickStart, our tap water is well water, and it's hard water. We usually need to treat it with a ton of salt a couple times a year