[AquaticLife] Re:Tetra’s Monthly Aquarium Maintenance advice???
I pretty well get the ph below 8 before I add it to the tank, and the tank ph seems to hover around 7.6 no matter what I do. But that is fairly high ph on the chart of ammonia toxicity.
I found that adding 5 ml of Prime to 3 gallons of water over four hours still left up to .25 ppm of ammonia in my water, so I went away for a couple of hours and came back and the ammonia level was much closer to 0.
But when I added 4 ml of Prime to 3 gallons of water and left it for about 20 hours, it still shows .25 to .5 ppm of ammonia. So I added another 2 ml before doing my air bubble thing that is always necessary to lower the ph before putting the water in the tank, no matter how long it sat out.
My numbers are ammonia about .25, nitrites between 1.0 and 2.0, and nitrates about 5.0 - exactly what it was yesterday.
Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX tiggernut24@yahoo.com
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