Recent content by qingwei789

My apologies guys, I was away these few days and did not notice these replies. Recently, I came across this article talking about alkalinity, pH, calcium content. http://www.wetwebmedia.com/alkalinity.htm It appears that carbonate affects alkalinity and calcium content is essential for fish...

Hi snazy, My tank has been set up for about 6months. My filtration rate has no indication. I take nitrate reading every week, currently it is about 100ppm. I believe the nitrifying bacteria are still there because my nitrate level is still increasing after i changed my filter 3weeks ago. I...

Hi guys, Thank you so much for the help. The pH has raised to about 7.2 after adding the baking soda. Feeling much more relieved :) However, I have some questions to ask. Is there any side effect on using baking soda? Except that it may cause pH to increase too much -> ammonia become more...

Thank you very much for the tips I will try these out ASAP :)

Hi three-finger, thank you so much for the fast respond. I'm keeping small tilapia about 2cm in size, 30 of it. Size of my tank is about 72 x 60 x 45 cm There is no wood in my tank but i do place aquatic plant in it I have measured the pH of tap water to be about 6.8pH. The hardness in my tank...

Hey guys, I have been stuck with this problem for about 3 week trying out various method mention online but the pH is still dropping. Methods that I have tried are 1stly : Reduce the amount of food fed to the fish 2ndly : Increase the aeration (remove CO2) 3rdly : Increase limestone (increase...