ph with cherrys and briggs

[dixienut]

i have been up ing my ph to help my briggs and have noticed that my cherries havn't been breeding as well, are they really that sensitive to ph,..
they loved my water before the snails,.......

what other shrimp like hard and high ph water?
in summer it is 7.4 in winter its 6.8ish well water

i know most like soft water but i have hard water really hard,..

any feedback will be pondered,..lol

[H3D]

pH has little to do with the hardness of the water. Whats your GH reading?

[dixienut]

pH has little to do with the hardness of the water. Whats your GH reading?


calcuim around 420
kg is 250.-286.4 kinda hard to judge to color without a referance

this was earlier in the fall..

[H3D]

Yup that pretty hard...LOL...I'm surprised it is bothering the cherry shrimp though. Has anything else in the tank changed?

[dixienut]

that was just my water the tanks i've been first just using kent liquid calcium for the snails and the switched to using proper ph 8.2 and now i'm just using salt water buffer,.. but they have not rebounded for a long time since i sold a ton of them,.. months ago,.. i wonder if anything is wrong i see males galor and females barried but they are in a 46 bow, tons of plants but not much action when i put in food,..?

no other fish in there for a while i just put my galaxy rasboras in there a few weeks ago,.. but there wasn't much going one since is last sold in july,..??

maybe they are just getting old and tired?
only thing in there is a few ponds ram and briggs, and amanos and of course cherries..

[H3D]

Why are you adding all that stuff? That very well could be the problem.

[dixienut]

not all that stuff, just the last on the list i used them untill i found another, and that has only been a month or so, the shrimp were doing bad since july, just to get the ph up and calcium for the snails which are helping,..

i have well water and in the fall/winter months the ph goes down to where it is bad for the snails and the amount of pest snails is large so they deplete the calcium rather fast, as to their shell erosion,

but they are really showing good shell condition from the last couple months,..

all i'm doing to the water is making it safe for the snails shells due to the low ph and avaliable calcium etc,.

[PaulJ69]

If you want to raise the ph, just add some crushed coral in the filter. I just did about 3 hours ago and my ph raised to around 7 already!

[dixienut]

i have added coral rocks from petsmart,.. its the same as aragonite for substrate but in fist sized chunks i use them as scaping rocks, for looks and buffering in addition to the other,..

i also have brigs and cherries in a 20long and the shrimp are fine, babies everywhere ,... the 46 bow is puzzling me a bit,..

i added a few shrimp from the 20 to the 46 to freshen up the blood a bit, perhaps this it the problem,.. for the 20 get the same water treatment and is fine,???