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They do say that but they also say this effect will only last an hour. In my experience this is not true and if anything it accumulates. I think its dangerous and should only ever be used to treat new water. I won't add it for any other reason now even though they say you can add it to detoxify...

I'm inclined to think now that the drop in PH might be due to nitrification after all. I have done several tests on the tap water now and it seems fine in fact after i dosed it with prime strangely it went up. After the 50% water change on Wednesday when ammonia was showing 4ppm, after the...

Apologies I'll post back in the other.

Yes, min, average and max. I need to find out what is causing the PH to reach 6 in my tank after 24 hours and am running out of things to try but I am 99% certain it is why my cycle isn't happening.

This is what it says: Alkalinity as CaCO3 22.3 52.6 68.1

Spoke to the water authority today and they told me that when the water for my area leaves the treatment center is it between 7 and 8 in PH. I asked them if they add anything to it to buffer it and they said they do not although it could fluctuate as it makes it way through their system etc...

Been trying to cycle an aquarium for 4-5 weeks now with no results, ammonia is still reading at around 1ppm, no nitrites or nitrates. Tank has some plants and has been treated with Prime and has had a full bottle of Seachem Stability over a 4 week period and I bought some Fluval Cycle too both...

Thank you. Tank PH is back down to 6 today.

Thanks. What floating plants do you recommend? really not had much luck with this tank so far, one of my female guppies jumped out last night :( the glass top was on as well so she managed to get out of the smallest gap, I think the flow contributed to that as the pump is quite powerful and I...

So I did more testing and this is what I found: I left tap water out for 24 hours and tested it was 7.6 so did a high range and that said 7.4. I decided to do a 50% water change today and after that I checked the PH of the tank water and it was 6.4-6.6 despite being 6 previously. Ammonia...

I'm going to report it, tested the tap water after 24 hours and it was 6 on the api master test kit which does suggest it could be lower but for argument sake lets say its 6. Straight out of the tap it is much much higher so when I do a water change that must really hurt the fish. I'm convinced...

Quick update on this. Still no change, PH is still 6, it comes up to 7.6 after a water change but goes back to 6 after 24 hours. Ammonia is still being read on the API freshwater test kit at somewhere in the region of 2ppm, water change reduces this. No nitrites and nitrates at 5ppm but...

Between 0.5 and 1

Actually it occurred to me that one might be close to giving birth its only the females that are staying at the top. If one is ready to pop would the others hang around it do you think?