FH PH HELP
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get some texas holey rock or crushed coral to raise your pH, never use chemicals! It's not good to play with your pH. I suggest just leaving it at ever it comes out of the tap. If you do want to raise it get a big barrel to store water and fill it with texas holy rock and crushed coral. Let the water sit for a day then add it to your tank. If you need to lower your pH use driftwood/peat moss in the filter.
KREED;2452687; said:
Good PH range is 7-7.8 for FHs. Anything lower is fine as well as long as it's above 6.0 and the key is.... CONSISTENCY of PH, rather than the number of the PH.
How long has your tank bee set up and running? Is it fully cycled? If your tank is in the process of cycling, the PH shoots up and decreases as the cycle ends.
Another factor(most of the case) is that your tap water has low KH(carbonate hardness) which you need at least 80ppm of in order to make the PH stable and prevent from the PH to go down. Check your KH.
Solution to that is you can add baking soda to bring up the KH, and also raises up the PH, so make sure you do it little by little or you will PH crash your fish and kill it since baking soda INSTANTLY(unlike CC) raises your PH and KH.
And other easier solution is crushed corals/oyster shells. They gradually raise up the PH and KH, add slowly little by little until the water sits at where you want it. But the catch is that the CC is calcium bicarbonate, meaning they also raise the GH(general hardness) of your water. Luckly FHs aren't too sensitive and shouldn't cause problems, but if you have soft water loving fish such as aros,discus,and rays etc.... You shouldn't use CC.(99.9% of the fish people aren't aware of this and eventually screw up their fish in the long run blamming on the fish has just died for no reason instead of blamming on their ignorancy
)Hope this helps,
JP
thanks
how do u test the kh?
how do u test the kh?
JPlikewoah;2452789; said:Good PH range is 7-7.8 for FHs. Anything lower is fine as well as long as it's above 6.0 and the key is.... CONSISTENCY of PH, rather than the number of the PH.
How long has your tank bee set up and running? Is it fully cycled? If your tank is in the process of cycling, the PH shoots up and decreases as the cycle ends.
Another factor(most of the case) is that your tap water has low KH(carbonate hardness) which you need at least 80ppm of in order to make the PH stable and prevent from the PH to go down. Check your KH.
Solution to that is you can add baking soda to bring up the KH, and also raises up the PH, so make sure you do it little by little or you will PH crash your fish and kill it since baking soda INSTANTLY(unlike CC) raises your PH and KH.
And other easier solution is crushed corals/oyster shells. They gradually raise up the PH and KH, add slowly little by little until the water sits at where you want it. But the catch is that the CC is calcium bicarbonate, meaning they also raise the GH(general hardness) of your water. Luckly FHs aren't too sensitive and shouldn't cause problems, but if you have soft water loving fish such as aros,discus,and rays etc.... You shouldn't use CC.(99.9% of the fish people aren't aware of this and eventually screw up their fish in the long run blamming on the fish has just died for no reason instead of blamming on their ignorancy
Hope this helps,
JP