Ph runs pretty steady between 7.2-7.4 depending on the tank.. I never saw any swings when I tested, though doesn’t mean it didn’t at some point.
Yeah, given that there’s 4 tanks in that corner of the room and all get the same cleaning... no chemicals to clean just a scraper and a glass cleaner sponge thing that came with my extendable glass scraper.. looks like a mr clean magic eraser... if it had been something to get in the tanks I would have expected it to affect more than just the 1 tank and would have affected the 3 kinds of catfish that were in the tank as well. Then again, I would think that regardless of what the culprit was, it would have also had some sort of affect on the catfish that were in the tank as well, but they are still all doing well.
I hadn’t salted the tank since the first week I put them into the quarantine tank and have been doing weekly 50% water changes, the same as the rest of my tanks.. The oscars got from the pet store when they were about 1” and they were pushing 2.5-3”... they were fed a mixture of like 4-5 kinds of cichlids foods as well as frozen cichlids diet and dried shrimp, mealworms, crickets, a pea or 2 on occasion, probably something I’m forgetting... hadn’t been any meds in the tank for about 3 weeks or more. There has to be something that I’m overlooking, either that or was just a bad batch of oscars that had some parasites the paracleanse didn’t take care of or something... but, never saw any when treating for the 1st week so didn’t do a full follow up, just dosed the tank once and let it stew for the 2nd week.