fishfanatic
Aquarium Advice Addict
- Joined
- Apr 6, 2011
- Messages
- 2,038
Does that stuff that comes wrapped around roots of plants effect pH? When you buy plants that come in pots they have this yellowish fibery stuff around the roots.
fishfanatic said:Does that stuff that comes wrapped around roots of plants effect pH? When you buy plants that come in pots they have this yellowish fibery stuff around the roots.
Does that stuff that comes wrapped around roots of plants effect pH? When you buy plants that come in pots they have this yellowish fibery stuff around the roots.
Should I do 2 20% pwc everyday? One in the morning and one at night?
Right now I am doing one of those bucket tests that it talked about in the link. I took a test of the tap water before I added prime and after I added the prime now I am going to wait and test it a third time...
The link said dead plants will change the pH I am sure there are some dead leaves I'm my jungle of aquarium, I have also not seen one of my sae in a long time. Should I pull up all the plants and trim off all the dead leaves?
Holy crap!!!! That is insane!I may have found the problem! I think the seachem prime has been reacting with the macros (ferts). Take a look at this... the test bottle on the left has tap water treated with prime in it, the one on the right has tap water treated with prime and macros mixed in
kaiofcanada said:Holy crap!!!! That is insane!
Oh man....poor fishies. Good research!!! Looks like you found your culprit. Very good information for others who might also be unlucky. Good thing is that there are lots of different conditioners to choose from. At least you now know what you are dealing with !
kaiofcanada said:still looks a bit high to me. Are you testing the tank water or your water from the tap?
Do your macros up the pH?
kaiofcanada said:Great...I would use this combo for now. You can try testing out different conditioners. It might be a bit of trial and error :/ but at least you know what you are dealing with.
My only concern at this point is that your water might be buffered due to the prime for a higher pH. I would do all of your water changes using the stresscoat as a conditioner until you find a better one. Stresscoat has high phosphates, so I would not use it long term as it may contribute to algae bloom. But for now, at least you won't be adding very basic water into your tank everytime.
Try doing your water changes as we discussed and keep a close watch on if the pH starts dropping to a more neutral point. This would be ideal. If daily 20-25% changes don't start to drop it within the next three days...go up to 50% and see what affect that has. Do 50% changes after that and hopefully that will be a nice slow step down and your fish won't be stressed.