elaine5182
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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Oops we also do have the professional testing kit
Oops we also do have the professional testing kit
wait a minute! Siva, I thought the gups and danios were still in her tank?? If so elaine, you can't use ammonia as you already have an ammo source. The fish! Or did I miss something? Do you still have fish in that tank or no? If so, don't add ammonia.
I have very strange ph in my tap water too. It comes out of the tap at too high to test, above 9, then in a few days will drop to below six. So what I do, rather than use the powder stuff, is I have a little mesh bag of coral gravel that I keep in all of my filters. It helps to keep the ph stable and you don't have to worry about adding chemicals as it natural. The ph in all of my tanks is 7-7.2 by using the coral gravel. Just a thought.
But as siva said, don't take out the filters as they are a beneficial source of bacteria, as long as you DO have fish in that tank. I'm confused at this point! LOL.
Thanks Jason great article I will keep in mind when get a new bn plec
Beavismom I've done a 40 pwc today so going to test water later, is it about 6hours I should leave water after doing a water change before testing?
Test ph after 1hr and again next day if you are having non-stable water condition. Also, don't do too much pwc, let the filter build up it's bacteria level. The filter and water carries the good bacteria, but it concentrates in the filter. When you do pwc's, put the fresh water back into tank, not directly through the filter, otherwise, you are washing the bacteria out and it will have to recolonise in the filter.