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Originally Posted by predator1984uk
lol im such a div.is this coral???
if my ph is to high how do i lower it with out ...
if my ph is to high how do i lower it with out more chemicals,is there a natural way
Looks more like limestone. Not a problem if you're planning to keep fish which thrive better in hard than soft water.
Have you make a list of fish you're planning to keep?
i was sold it as a freash water???? they said however that it had to be cept in higher ph water
Maybe you were, but I'd return it, your stats are all wrong you ned to start again, or at least get it settled, get something a bit hardy. And give it time.
You can cycle your water a lot quicker if you do a fishless cycle using bacteria from an old tank. You can either ask somebody you know to let you have some of his old filter media, or alternately beg them to put your filter in their tank for a few days before returning it to yours, beneficial bacteria should have built up. A tank cycled in this way takes less than a week to go through its whole cycle. Incidently neons prefer aged water, i wouldn't get them as first fish. Good luck.
blooming plonkers fancy selling me the wrong animal im gutted i think its gonna die to be honest,all movements stopping and it moves a claw every minute or so.shame beautiful little thing
