Big problem
ok, thanks ray for all the info it took me several times reading it to digest everthing. so here goes my explaniation of my thoughts.
first, i have no test results for my water supply, except i do know, that i have brook river water coming into the well, coming through a 300+ foot piece of PVC pipe, going into a water tank, then through 200+ year old copper pipes. so from the well it does not have any chlorine in it, or anthing esle except natrural stuff… but who knows what with the piping and such/ 2ndly i notice that the pH level is lower in the winter time, and higher in the summer. 3rdly, everyone else i have talked to is woundering how i mange to keep my fish, in such a high pH tank, i have a few diffrent types of tetras, a guppy, and a plecco. all of witch i have had scince i set up the tank. so i guess i should of listend to my instinct and motto of “if it aint broke’ dont fix it” and just left the ph alone. the thing i was worried about was the introduction of new fish that i wanted to buy, so i have tryed to lower the pH. again cus everyone else i talked to, said before you add new fish, lower your pH.
right as of now, the pH is back to 7.6.
so here is what i propose to do. 1. keep with the 10% percent water changes untill the Ich goes away 2. raise the tempture 3. keep using the same water sorce 4. not add anymore pH down 5. hope for the best! LOL
i said in a e-mail earlier, that everone looks better today so far, the ich seems to be alot better already.
now one more question as i posted before, i added another airstone, to “attempt to lower the pH”…. i read that in a book, i know more O2 is better, but does this really hold true? the other reason i put it in there was beacuse it looks pretty. lol ..·´¯´`·.¸¸.> .·´¯`·.¸¸.> .·´¯`·.¸¸.> Matt Musky
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