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Originally Posted by Loudness
Different time of the day can have slightly different PH reading.
If it is abnormal, then it can be ammonia spike.
Do you have fish inside and what is the size of the tank?
monday night before i book in, the ph was 6.2. friday when i book out, it was 5.8. i asked my sis to top up water on thurs, and there's not death of shrimp. friday when i get home, 5 dead. later in the night, another 4 gone. now, another 3 down.
i didnt add any new plant or anything. just did a 10% water change on friday. the tank has been cycled since may. all shrimps doing fine for 2 weeks. i dont have any test kit only got the ph one. yst night just added a handful of coral chips to increase the ph, but it's not working.
anyone got any idea what to do?
Different time of the day can have slightly different PH reading.
If it is abnormal, then it can be ammonia spike.
Do you have fish inside and what is the size of the tank?
no fish inside. it's a 1ft cube tank run by 2 HOB filter. i just did a 50% water change.
Being a 1ft tank you risk water fluacluations this should be ammonia as you do ten percent water change should be about twenty.and the cOral chips you put in may increase the ph too greaty so there maybe two factors one is ur tread is ph shock or ammonia .buy a test kit check ammonia.
should be soil leaking ammonia . take out your shrimps and put somewhere with age water then do major change water for the tank . let tank cycle for twelve hours then put them back .
Without more information on the water parameters, asking TS to do all these drastic water changes and moving the shrimps around may just cause more death
TS, did your Sis add straight tap water into the tank?
What's the nitrate levels and TDS?
What shrimps and how many are in the tank?
What are the existing plants?
I was thinking that his sister took tap water straight from the tap as well but I assumed he is smart enough to warn his sister not to use water from the tap.
I doubt it is PH shock. Even when previously I added soil n change media to my 2ft tank which caused my PH to drop from 6.6 to 5.7 in a few hours. I didn't get any casualties.
But then again your tank is 1ft so many parameters are easily affected
Yea. I agree small tank water perimeter fluctuation hard to avoid. And also there is a possibility of adding straight tap water into the tank.
Ph changes in great amount example.
Ph6 to ph7 is 10 times the effect and difference.
Ph7 to ph8 is 100 times the effect and difference.
Sudden change sure incurred fatalities.
Getting poison everyday
Editing the ph 6 to ph 8 is 100 times the effect and difference. Typo error
Getting poison everyday
Asking the obvious.... was the replacement water treated for chloramine?
I'm back & keeping 'em fingers wet,
Ronnie Lee
Hehe, it would appear that all of us have very little faith in the sister
Nothing to do with faith or belief in oneself or in others. Just the absolute indispensable and minimum necessity, IMHO
I'm back & keeping 'em fingers wet,
Ronnie Lee
hmm... the water was treated properly (not the first time doing it). seems like it's ammonia spike, there's no death of shrimp after a 50% WC. but they are not eating...hmm...
eh .. what shrimps?
no GH?
no kH?
pH drop from 6.2 to and fri was 5.8
what water is that? distill water?
if tap aged water will bring up the pH slightly instead?
so the shrimps are new in tank?all shrimps doing fine for 2 weeks. i dont have any test kit only got the ph one. yst night just added a handful of coral chips to increase the ph, but it's not working.
you can take out the coral chips, it may bring gH up too high
50% WC is quite stressful for the shrimps..
NOt sure whats the source of death on friday .. don't know how your sis add the water
next time install a pin hole camera on your tank.. see how your sis add the water.. kek
WTS barang barang
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Over-dosing of Anti-Chlorine will cause death too...
Not only shrimps....even fishes also...
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