Cinnebuns Posted August 8, 2022 Author Share Posted August 8, 2022 On 8/7/2022 at 7:38 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: Are they 100% acrylic? Yes. I'm confident now it's not what's killing them. I've found some not in the mops 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnebuns Posted August 8, 2022 Author Share Posted August 8, 2022 Tested my tap and the ph drop was because my tap ph dropped. I ain't mad cause 7.6 is pretty much ideal. The issues was my nitrates were much higher than I thought. The API test gets pretty inaccurate above 40 I've found. All the reds look the same. It took me 3 water changes to get it to start to look dark orange so I figure it originally was pretty high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 On 8/7/2022 at 9:43 PM, Cinnebuns said: Tested my tap and the ph drop was because my tap ph dropped. I ain't mad cause 7.6 is pretty much ideal. The issues was my nitrates were much higher than I thought. The API test gets pretty inaccurate above 40 I've found. All the reds look the same. It took me 3 water changes to get it to start to look dark orange so I figure it originally was pretty high. Ya know I never know which orange matches the card on that darn API nitrate test kit. I just take my best guess of the reading based on how it looks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnebuns Posted August 9, 2022 Author Share Posted August 9, 2022 On 8/8/2022 at 10:42 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: Ya know I never know which orange matches the card on that darn API nitrate test kit. I just take my best guess of the reading based on how it looks. Yeah I was kinda confused top because my high bottomed out and my low topped out and neither are ever entirely accurate so I'm just placing it around 7.6. That's better for most species than 8.2 so I'm happy. Also it's still high for keeping those snail shells healthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 On 8/8/2022 at 11:59 PM, Cinnebuns said: Yeah I was kinda confused top because my high bottomed out and my low topped out and neither are ever entirely accurate so I'm just placing it around 7.6. That's better for most species than 8.2 so I'm happy. Also it's still high for keeping those snail shells healthy. Oh I was talking about nitrates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnebuns Posted August 9, 2022 Author Share Posted August 9, 2022 On 8/9/2022 at 7:16 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: Oh I was talking about nitrates Oh that makes sense. I agree. It confuses me and I don't like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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