BettaGal
Aquarium Advice Addict
My pH in my tank use to be the most steady pH ever. It never changed from 7.6 no matter how crazy my ammonia got. Yesterday, about 24 hours after my water change, it dropped from 7.6 to 6.0 on me. I did a water change and it went up to 7.2 after that. Now maybe 15 hours after that water change, it's down to 6.4 again. My other tests are reading ammonia - 1 ppm; nitrite - 3 ppm; nitrate - 5 ppm. What can I get to stabilize my pH? I have three snails, three Cory cats, and one flame dwarf gourami. The only issue I've had before the sudden pH madness is that my ammonia will not go down below 1 ppm even with daily 50-90% water changes, and I was advised to get an ammonia removing filter media to help. I have that and was also advised to help my cycle by getting a bottle of nitrifying bacteria, which I added the day before my first pH plummet but not last night.