Not much new to report, just thought I'd let you know I'm still plugging away. Moved the Betta to his own tank (2.5 gallon) - more on that in another thread as he appears to be having a little bit of a problem.
Anyway - I did a 10% water change for him using the 7:1 mix, the ph stayed the same but the kh actually increased! I'm going to assume I just did something wrong because I don't think that should have happened.
But for now I'm going to give straight distilled water a try. Have got the Fresh Trace ordered and on it's way, and already have Neutral Regulator for the KH and Equilibrium as well (all Seachem) though I'm not 100% sure what this is for. GH? Do I really need to add all three of these to distilled water or is the Equilibrium the same thing as the Fresh Trace? The LFS owner said the Equilibrium is what I add to the water to restore trace elements and such but after doing some reading I don't know that that's true.
Who woulda thunk that a free goldfish given to my kid by her teacher would turn into such madness. (The poor goldfish didn't make it past the end of the first week btw but by then we had already invested a small fortune in aquarium supplies...)
Anyway - I did a 10% water change for him using the 7:1 mix, the ph stayed the same but the kh actually increased! I'm going to assume I just did something wrong because I don't think that should have happened.
But for now I'm going to give straight distilled water a try. Have got the Fresh Trace ordered and on it's way, and already have Neutral Regulator for the KH and Equilibrium as well (all Seachem) though I'm not 100% sure what this is for. GH? Do I really need to add all three of these to distilled water or is the Equilibrium the same thing as the Fresh Trace? The LFS owner said the Equilibrium is what I add to the water to restore trace elements and such but after doing some reading I don't know that that's true.
Who woulda thunk that a free goldfish given to my kid by her teacher would turn into such madness. (The poor goldfish didn't make it past the end of the first week btw but by then we had already invested a small fortune in aquarium supplies...)