Brucej
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hi, we recently upgraded our 85L tank to a 292L and getting used to the scale of things. I used to only test ammonia but New tank came with full test kit. Transferred all fish, gravel and toys and cycling seemed to stabilise with ING 1 week so presumably bacteria survived the transfer.
Have now added 6 clown loach, 1 leopard pleco. I plan to add some cardinal tetra and 1 discus once settled.
The ph seems to be all over the place. For 3 weeks was too high at 7.8
I added pH decreased , enough to reduce ph by 0.5, which did nothing after a few days so I repeated. A week later ph is now 6.8 so bit too low.
The clowns were all hiding but now have come out but only 5. Could a rotting carcass hidden somewhere cause the ph to drop. But have not seen any ammonia, nitrate or nitrite, all sitting at zero
Was planning to add some driftwood to bring ph down, but not certain that is a good idea now!
Thought I’d do a water change (not used to how long that takes for such a big tank)
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Have now added 6 clown loach, 1 leopard pleco. I plan to add some cardinal tetra and 1 discus once settled.
The ph seems to be all over the place. For 3 weeks was too high at 7.8
I added pH decreased , enough to reduce ph by 0.5, which did nothing after a few days so I repeated. A week later ph is now 6.8 so bit too low.
The clowns were all hiding but now have come out but only 5. Could a rotting carcass hidden somewhere cause the ph to drop. But have not seen any ammonia, nitrate or nitrite, all sitting at zero
Was planning to add some driftwood to bring ph down, but not certain that is a good idea now!
Thought I’d do a water change (not used to how long that takes for such a big tank)
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