just an update if anyone was curious. I left one of the pieces of driftwood in a 5 gal bucket for just under a week. The initial ph of the water in the bucket was 8.5 which has since dropped to 6.5. So I have found the culprit, I am still going to leave the other piece of driftwood in the tank as I dont think there will be much of an effect in a 55g with water changes.
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- Thread starter flaherci
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the same thing happened to me with my 30 freshwater. i had some shells on the bottom. it drained the ph down 1 point every week and a half.
