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Thank you. I'll look into it. I woke up with a second one dead. The others seem to be okay for the most part. They ate except for 2 that are still...

I am sorry for your loses. Do Gardena or maybe an equivalent supplier makes hose pipe garden fittings in your part of the country. They...

Thanks. I have two air stones going, high water fall, two jets raised upward to oxygenate the water, and added a water fountain pump for good...

Thank you. I have a chlorine test kit. It shows my chlorine is back to 0 after dosing it with prime. It was at 2ppm which is what my water's chlorine...

How long it takes to fully cycle depends on many variables like water temp.,kH level, pH ,and bioload , and bio media, plants and algae load and...

Aerate your water if you can.

In my experience it takes about 3 weeks to get nitrite and 2 months to fully cycle.

Sorry to hear that. It happened to me too not too long ago where I left it running all day when I was away from work for 12 hours. I also lost one...

too long ( twice as long) that's why we always keep the kH at at least 150 when cycling..

We treat the water that has a pH of 5 before adding fish.since we add baking soda to get the kH up to 150ppm it takes care of that low pH in the...

Again thank you for being here. At 5 aren’t the fish struggling?

With KH > 80ppm how long does it take for you to fully cycle given reasonable water temp, say 65F?

Upload some pictures showing the problem?

I've done experiments with water with no kH and a pH of 5 where they simply will not cycle or begin to cycle for 90 days at a water temp of 75df....

It all depends on your bioload, feed rates, fish and plant and algae loads etc as to whether what you are stating is the case.. Basically put,...

I can say that of all the varied systems we have on the farm, combined with my own experiments, that systems with a kH and thus higher pH cycle way...

Thanks for your reply again. But I think that it is not entirely correct. Carbonic ions and carbon dioxide are used as carbon source by the...

Like I said previously, it is easily found out by injection of a known amount of carbon dioxide into a known amount of water, then checking the pH...

I can't answer that question as to how much it changes pH but I can say that's why we maintain kH. To keep pH stable. So no matter how much it...

My real question can be splitted into 2 consecutive questions: 1) Even if the pH is lowered due to as you said scientifically proven that carbon...

Also a byproduct of biofiltration is amino "acid". This will also try to drive pH down. Again basic and factual science but not directly associated...