My new tank chemistry
Sunday I set up my tank and added a third of a container of Bio-spira (the refrigerated kind), and five black phantom tetras.
I’m using API test kits.
Yesterday evening my numbers were:
Ph 7.9 to 8.0 - unchanged since I put it in. ammonia between .25 and .5 ppm The two shades of light yellow-green are hard to tell apart. nitrate 5.0 ppm Nitrite slight. Again the card isn’t the easiest to read. Less than ..25
I did a one third water change and added another third of the bio-spira. I added the water gradually because of temperature difference and I’m having trouble with ph - apparently the water doesn’t absorb CO2 from a bucket. Even adding more distilled water PH was still 8.6
My least happy fish - the quiet one that didn’t want to eat - died.
This morning I have another quiet fish that doesn’t want to eat.
Ph 7.8 to 7.9 (it would finally have absorbed CO2 with all that air bubbling in the tank - and the new water had a higher proportion of distilled.)
Ammonia
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