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Hi. I am new here and fairly new aquarium owner. I have a 25 gal tank. Tank is appx 5 months old. Planted (not sure of types of plants). I have been losing fish! Test Ph 6.0, no ammonia, no nitrite, nitrate 5.0. I am not sure why my Ph keeps dropping. I have been doing almost daily H20 changes. I plan on just keeping guppies but I am getting very frustrated... If I keep killing fish I will just take the stinking tank down! I have read that putting a bag of crushed coral may help? Any suggestions welcome.
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Hello and welcome. We have all had some problems in the past getting a tank started and balanced. You are not alone.

Would you please tell us a little more about your tank? Be specific when you can or just tell us what you know.
What lights are on your tank?
Is it by a window?
What temperature is the water?
How are you treating the water when you add it to the tank? (dechlorinator or some other product?)
What kinds of fish are in the tank now?
How many of them?
How many have died?
What filter do you have?

We'll figure this out. Don't give up yet.
 
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You said you dont know why your PH keeps dropping. Do you use something to buffer ( raise or lower) the PH? PH spikes and drops can harm and even kill fish.

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As already said, more data on this tank is needed before we start guessing on answers.

I might also suggest you review another recent thread on much the same topic, raising GH and pH:
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?277298-Raising-pH-with-Coral-or

As I posted therein, you need to know the GH, KH and pH of your source water, presumably tap water. This will allow us to determine what you're asking. Trying to adjust water parameters without knowing this data is very serious, since one is stumbling blindly into natural scientific processes and this only leads to more trouble and fish stress/loss.

Byron.
 
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The tank is a Fluval accent 25 gallon. LED lights came with the tank. Heater is set at 79 degrees. I was using Seachem neutral regulator. I had a tank as a kid and don't remember it being this complicated! I just went to local pet store to get some crushed coral. I have lost about 8 guppies and my ghost shrimp. I have 3 lonely guppies left :(
 
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I am not sure what KH and GH are as my kit only tests for PH, ammonia, nitates and nitrites.
 
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Also ---Are you acclimating the new fishes---How??
 
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I was acclimating the new fish by floating the bag on top. Then, with a bucket with water from tank slowly add tank water to bag. Then, add fish to the bucket of tank water and net the fish from bucket to tank...
 
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Is your test kit a liquid one?
 
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