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Originally Posted by Lotus  Welcome to the site!
I think that taking out your UGF has disturbed your bacteria.
You'll need to do some larger water changes (more like 60%) to get that ammonia down, and keep adding the Ammo-Lock until things are better. Try to keep both ammonia and nitrites down below 1ppm.
Do you have any idea what cause the pH crash? Had you been doing regular cleaning/water changes until that happened? |
wow 60%? I better do one tonight then....
I really don't understand what happened...it was going well....I have live plants in it as well and they were striving. I think it was the UGF because even though I syphoned out the gravel very well every week, when I lifted it up 2 weeks ago to get rid of it..there was a massive amount of brown gunk trapped under the plates.
I would do 25%-30% water changes every week, net out the extra food on the surface, then I had a huge PH crash and then my KH dropped to 0. In NY we have soft water but my PH used to be steady at 6.50 at the very least.
Is my tank re-cycling? do I have to wiat this out for another 6-8 weeks again?
p.s. thanks for replying and helping me out
