danielcp
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Howdy,
I have a question for the fish store owners and general opinions for everybody else.
A little backdrop, I had finally found a pet store (Pet Supplies Plus) that had a knowledgable fish guy and decently healthy fish. So for a few months all was great. Then one day the fish guy disappears ^_^. He got offered a sales position with a dog food company and of course it pays better than a chain store so off he goes to Texas...
Now being all helpful me I decided to step in and take care of their fish (everybody else that works there is half clueless) and since I've spent so much at the store I get a good discount anyways so I don't want to ruin all of my hard work to get those discounts.
If things continue on their path I'll be going in a couple hours a day to maintain the fish and the aquarium section of the store.. ok no biggie right?
Here comes the problem, they have a tank setup with basically 12 75gallon tanks divided by 3 with the typical box'd corner filter/airpump etc... The problem comes in with the fact that it is a shared water system (from what I can tell). Everything is filtered into a large charcoal canister and back into the tanks...
This makes keeping individual PH ranges for the fish impossible..
I'm sure there's a way to disable the filter for one section of the tank if I need be for treating any sick fish... but, what do I do with the PH.
The previous guy who left had crushed coral in one of the 75's for the Chiclids, however, it being a shared water system (not sure if he realized that or not) all that coral is doing is raising the PH for all 12 tanks...
I took my Digital PH meter in and while the tank with the crushed coral is running about a 7.8, the tank farthest from it is running a 7.6 (+/- .1) so the difference is *not* that dramatic between the tanks, and a 7.6 isn't going to make the tetras very happy...
I've yet to find out what kind of water parameters that the fish supplier (local) keeps their fish in but what should I do. Three of the 75's are filled with Chicilids/Gouramis and the other 9 are filled with a mix of loaches, tetras, barbs, goldfish etc. I feel my best option would be to remove the crushed coral and just stick with the tap water PH, which is still fairly high, around 8.2 out of the tap and 7.5-7.7 after it has sat, but I wonder if anyone else had any suggestions or ideas for me.
I have a question for the fish store owners and general opinions for everybody else.
A little backdrop, I had finally found a pet store (Pet Supplies Plus) that had a knowledgable fish guy and decently healthy fish. So for a few months all was great. Then one day the fish guy disappears ^_^. He got offered a sales position with a dog food company and of course it pays better than a chain store so off he goes to Texas...
Now being all helpful me I decided to step in and take care of their fish (everybody else that works there is half clueless) and since I've spent so much at the store I get a good discount anyways so I don't want to ruin all of my hard work to get those discounts.
If things continue on their path I'll be going in a couple hours a day to maintain the fish and the aquarium section of the store.. ok no biggie right?
Here comes the problem, they have a tank setup with basically 12 75gallon tanks divided by 3 with the typical box'd corner filter/airpump etc... The problem comes in with the fact that it is a shared water system (from what I can tell). Everything is filtered into a large charcoal canister and back into the tanks...
This makes keeping individual PH ranges for the fish impossible..
I'm sure there's a way to disable the filter for one section of the tank if I need be for treating any sick fish... but, what do I do with the PH.
The previous guy who left had crushed coral in one of the 75's for the Chiclids, however, it being a shared water system (not sure if he realized that or not) all that coral is doing is raising the PH for all 12 tanks...
I took my Digital PH meter in and while the tank with the crushed coral is running about a 7.8, the tank farthest from it is running a 7.6 (+/- .1) so the difference is *not* that dramatic between the tanks, and a 7.6 isn't going to make the tetras very happy...
I've yet to find out what kind of water parameters that the fish supplier (local) keeps their fish in but what should I do. Three of the 75's are filled with Chicilids/Gouramis and the other 9 are filled with a mix of loaches, tetras, barbs, goldfish etc. I feel my best option would be to remove the crushed coral and just stick with the tap water PH, which is still fairly high, around 8.2 out of the tap and 7.5-7.7 after it has sat, but I wonder if anyone else had any suggestions or ideas for me.