Lachlan McKillo
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Hi and thanks for reading.
This is my situation, my tanks PH is sitting at a consistent 7.6 which as far as I know is livable but not optimal for Axolotls.
I have been trying to lower it with PH down to no avail it does not budge at all.
So I did some research and found that the active carbon I had in the filter may have been causing the PH to rise, And also probably sucking the PH down out of the water so I removed that, Now about 4 days later after a 40% water change and a few doses of PH down the PH is still 7.6, Maybe I'm being to hasty in expecting results?
My KH was pretty low as I have read axolotls like harder water but there does not seem to be much info on what that actually means in terms of ppm, So I have been keeping it at around 125 ppm. I have been doing this with baking soda for a week or two and it seems to work pretty well.
I believe this is supposed to raise PH by a small amount but keep it more stable.
The PH of the water that comes out of my tap is about 7.2 so the question is why is my PH rising by 0.4?
I'll give a run down of what is in the tank.
2 Resin fake logs, 3 fake plants 2 silk 1 plastic, richgro play sand from bunnings.
In the filter there is the 3 foam filter sponges, 2 lots of ceramic rings.
Ammonia is slightly above 0ppm and has been going down from 0.25ppm I expect it to be 0ppm tomorrow (I put a bit too many fish in there after finding out I was getting 4 Axolotls instead of 3 so there may be a micro cycle happening). Nitrites are 0ppm Nitrates are 40ppm-80ppm.
Any advice would be awesome, Thanks!!
This is my situation, my tanks PH is sitting at a consistent 7.6 which as far as I know is livable but not optimal for Axolotls.
I have been trying to lower it with PH down to no avail it does not budge at all.
So I did some research and found that the active carbon I had in the filter may have been causing the PH to rise, And also probably sucking the PH down out of the water so I removed that, Now about 4 days later after a 40% water change and a few doses of PH down the PH is still 7.6, Maybe I'm being to hasty in expecting results?
My KH was pretty low as I have read axolotls like harder water but there does not seem to be much info on what that actually means in terms of ppm, So I have been keeping it at around 125 ppm. I have been doing this with baking soda for a week or two and it seems to work pretty well.
I believe this is supposed to raise PH by a small amount but keep it more stable.
The PH of the water that comes out of my tap is about 7.2 so the question is why is my PH rising by 0.4?
I'll give a run down of what is in the tank.
2 Resin fake logs, 3 fake plants 2 silk 1 plastic, richgro play sand from bunnings.
In the filter there is the 3 foam filter sponges, 2 lots of ceramic rings.
Ammonia is slightly above 0ppm and has been going down from 0.25ppm I expect it to be 0ppm tomorrow (I put a bit too many fish in there after finding out I was getting 4 Axolotls instead of 3 so there may be a micro cycle happening). Nitrites are 0ppm Nitrates are 40ppm-80ppm.
Any advice would be awesome, Thanks!!