lectraplayer
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- Feb 17, 2014
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In my 29g tank with 4 neons and 3 bleeding hearts, (and many plants), what can I look for to find what keeps pushing my pH up to the mid 8's? I'm wanting the upper sixes. Substrate is sand with compost under. To correct, I have stuck an oak blow-down log and a couple other pieces oak in the tank. My well water is a pH of 7. My 10g is currently holding 7.4 with 4 rasboras and 2 ottos, and the same plants, which is much more tolerable. Substrate there is gravel with compost under. I dose MgSO4 and some API Leaf Zone for the plants, which appear to really be thriving in the 10g but not so much in the 29g. Ammonia and Nitrite are absent in both, with Nitrates staying "up" @ around 20ppm in the 10g and less than 10ppm in the 29g. I'm not dosing CO2 but I intend to find some boostsr this evening, as well as other ferts. Water hardness tests are hard to come by though.