Agreed, I was just giving a range because most heaters are a dial/guess/hope setting, unless you're using digital. I think his mollies could handle it but I probably should have just said mid 80s.
help learning how to understand 5 in 1 Aquarium Test Strip
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Agreed, I was just giving a range because most heaters are a dial/guess/hope setting, unless you're using digital. I think his mollies could handle it but I probably should have just said mid 80s.
So much advice yet no details on the OP's tank...
What filtration do you have?
What are parameters out the tap like?
How was the tank cycled?
Any substrate?
Whats full stock list?
What filtration do you have?
What are parameters out the tap like?
How was the tank cycled?
Any substrate?
Whats full stock list?
Should also add, whats your water change schedule and how much each time?
sorry, I had the tank up and running for about a week. Then added the fish. I didnt know I needed to have the tank up and going for longer than that.
I wc every Sunday, but just recently changed on Thursday also to gry to get things to even out.
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MaryH
have you tested your tap water at all? Coz some people have high nitrates or ammonia etc out of their tap water which can obviously mess with chemistry...
Also, as a word of advise, fish can actually adapt to PH quite well as long as it stays stable, what can hurt a fish more is the constant tampering of PH levels from acidic to alkaline and vice versa...
Same goes with water hardness etc, there is no real need to mess with it, unless you have really soft or hard water, and a species that extremely sensitive to these parameters, you can leave it as is, or add some decor to help raise / lower it naturally such as driftwood etc...
Also, as a word of advise, fish can actually adapt to PH quite well as long as it stays stable, what can hurt a fish more is the constant tampering of PH levels from acidic to alkaline and vice versa...
Same goes with water hardness etc, there is no real need to mess with it, unless you have really soft or hard water, and a species that extremely sensitive to these parameters, you can leave it as is, or add some decor to help raise / lower it naturally such as driftwood etc...
Tetra Whisper Advanced Power Filter, Multi stage filtration for a 30-60 gal tank
GH is 60
KH is 0
PH is 6.0
Nitrite is 0
Nitrate is 0
Had it running about a week, did not know to check all the levels. Just started doing this.
Aquarium Gavel
6 guppies (had 8 - 3 died, but one of the babies is now an adult) had some babies other guppy babies, but not seeing them right now too small to see.
1 Mollie (had 3 - 2 died)
4 Red Tetras with white on fins
4 Black Tetras with white strip
5 Neon Tetras
2 CoryCats
2 Shrimp - have not seen them lately
4 Assassin Snails
Cant count the Bladder Snails
My tank is a 45 gal tank
Thinking I need to get a master testing kit to get the right levels. Just did the weekly wc and added the Aquarium Salt to help with the ick. I also use Prime for my wc to take out chemicals and prepare the water. The levels seem good so far, so Im going to just watch the fish and monitor. They seem to be swimming around pretty good, better than what they had been.
