I recently installed a water filtration system at my house and now the Ph and Kh have crashed in my tanks after my regular partial water changes.
I always had very hard water (above 400ppm) but as Ph was stable, no one in the tanks was stressed out and everything was fine. Ammonia, Nitrates and Nitrites all at 0.
Now my Ph has dropped below 6.0 (lowest on my test scale) and Kh is 0ppm. I have been adding electrolytes and Ph buffers for 3 days now and see no change in either Kh or Ph (Gh is still over 400ppm).
Now, the only resident that is unhappy with this is my mystery snail - which will stay in it's shell. This is waht first alerted me to a tank problem as normall "speedy" lives up to his name.
I'm looking for help/advise here as I seem to have tried all the usual solutions, but am getting now results. I don't to kill off speedy, or all of my biologials. What should I do next?
I always had very hard water (above 400ppm) but as Ph was stable, no one in the tanks was stressed out and everything was fine. Ammonia, Nitrates and Nitrites all at 0.
Now my Ph has dropped below 6.0 (lowest on my test scale) and Kh is 0ppm. I have been adding electrolytes and Ph buffers for 3 days now and see no change in either Kh or Ph (Gh is still over 400ppm).
Now, the only resident that is unhappy with this is my mystery snail - which will stay in it's shell. This is waht first alerted me to a tank problem as normall "speedy" lives up to his name.
I'm looking for help/advise here as I seem to have tried all the usual solutions, but am getting now results. I don't to kill off speedy, or all of my biologials. What should I do next?