Update on PH - 2 months on

New tank PH update. on its 2nd month today. Tested: 7 *hooray!!!*

PH reading

Still spotted about 10 shrimp casualties in my old tank this morning. Immediately did 80% WC and rinsed my canister throughly. I also minimised the flora in my tank and rinsed them in a pail. Took another PH reading this evening - 6.6. Hmmm...pretty stable but I was unable to perform other test without any further kits.

PH test again on my new tank - still maintained at 7.2 despite adding bogwood and blackwater drips.

PH 7.2 - 2ft tank

Latest update on my 1.5ft tank. Daily casualty about 10 pcs. For 3 consecutive days when I switched on the light in the morning, I saw them lying lifeless. It really hurts to see heavy casualties even though I have so many FR in my tank. Yesterday, I quickly did a 20% WC and today another 50%WC including siphoning out poos which have been accumulated over a year because I don't usually do WC to my tank except topping up water. I took a PH test before WC and it read 6 - too acidic (forgot to take photo of the test). Now it went back to around 6.5 after major WC. I suspect it could be amonia strike or was it the result of my recent over-trimming of watersprite? Whichever, I am closely monitoring the livestocks closely......
The purpose of the above photo is to show the Glossostigma I bought recently for my new tank. These are extra pieces to try out in my old tank. It is not appealing in the current sorry state because I have been quite impatient pulling the clumps apart. I wonder will they even survive under my care...hmmm

Latest update on my 2ft. I took some of the aged water from my 1.5ft tank during WC for my 2ft tank and added couple drops of black water. A day later, I think there is slight improvement to the water PH - 7.2. Still a long way to go before adding in shrimps.

PH Test Kit

First time using a PH Kit. Let's carry out some experiments...



Singapore water from the tap...pretty high PH 7.6 at least...
Fire red will be very stressed and appear "retarded".



The aged water from my 1.5ft tank where shrimps are in abundance...
PH 6.4 - 6.5. Fire Red in happy mood.