Some questions about some odd pH readings I have got.
I have had very successful fish tanks in the past, however, I moved a few years ago to the current house and had broken everything down. Well, I started again a few months ago and everything seemed fine at first, but over the last 2 months I have had some random issues that I could never figure out what caused. I lost 8 Geos, I can only assume to ich, since that was the only thing brought in at the time. Which is something I have never lost fish to before, but things are possible, right?
A few weeks ago, I started having trouble with a Motoro pup I had gotten, he developed white spots on his disc before his unfortunate passing. After some research it seems these spots or "disc burn" were potentially from pH shock. I truthfully never tested the pH coming out of the tap consistently until recently, and that is on me. I was naive to assume it would stay consistent.
Here is the deal, the pH out of my tap is never consistent. I have been testing it the last few days and straight out of the tap, I have seen anywhere from 7.4pH all the way up to 8.4pH. I have a tub of media I am fishless cycling due to all of the ich issues, yeah pH in that tub, which has been sitting at room temp with an air stone for about 5 weeks now, is 6.6/6.8. My 36 gallon tank has a couple of tetras in it, it was sitting at a pH of 6.0.
This stuff is all over the place and I can't for the life of me figure out why. Does anyone have similar issues that they handle in unique ways? My larger tank is 220 gallons, so I know the goal would probably be to have water change water already out and aerated, but I don't have any feasible means of doing so. The next best thing I can come up with is somehow setting myself up a drip system for an attempt at consistency?
I have had very successful fish tanks in the past, however, I moved a few years ago to the current house and had broken everything down. Well, I started again a few months ago and everything seemed fine at first, but over the last 2 months I have had some random issues that I could never figure out what caused. I lost 8 Geos, I can only assume to ich, since that was the only thing brought in at the time. Which is something I have never lost fish to before, but things are possible, right?
A few weeks ago, I started having trouble with a Motoro pup I had gotten, he developed white spots on his disc before his unfortunate passing. After some research it seems these spots or "disc burn" were potentially from pH shock. I truthfully never tested the pH coming out of the tap consistently until recently, and that is on me. I was naive to assume it would stay consistent.
Here is the deal, the pH out of my tap is never consistent. I have been testing it the last few days and straight out of the tap, I have seen anywhere from 7.4pH all the way up to 8.4pH. I have a tub of media I am fishless cycling due to all of the ich issues, yeah pH in that tub, which has been sitting at room temp with an air stone for about 5 weeks now, is 6.6/6.8. My 36 gallon tank has a couple of tetras in it, it was sitting at a pH of 6.0.
This stuff is all over the place and I can't for the life of me figure out why. Does anyone have similar issues that they handle in unique ways? My larger tank is 220 gallons, so I know the goal would probably be to have water change water already out and aerated, but I don't have any feasible means of doing so. The next best thing I can come up with is somehow setting myself up a drip system for an attempt at consistency?
