Newly cycled tank, only 3 mollies for now to support the ecosystem, all the plants are new as well, got them from a local grower, Ive been at straight 8.2 for weeks now.
Ignore that beginning dip, pretty sure that was a mistake on my part, but after off gassing, I'm 8.2 out of the tap. This is all pea gravel so I should have a pretty good buffer, but I just can't figure out why I lost .4
Any ideas?
6 Comments
cybervseas@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 196d
8.2 to 7.8 isn’t a huge shift, and could even be explained by the error margin in whatever device you’re using to measure.
If not random fluctuations then:
Time of day can matter for ph. Even when I wasn’t doing co2 injection I would see ph moving +/- 0.3 throughout the day.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 196d
I'm just using an API testing kit, yeah Its good to know it's not a lot I've just been burned by ph changes in the past, I will say I've been doing multiple tests a day in the week leading up to this and PH has been super stable, so this might likely be the bacteria one
cybervseas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 170d
Hey friend checking in. How's it going?
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 170d
Fine now, it was just an anomaly
DarkShaggy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 196d
No water change I assume?
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 196d
Last did a 50% change on the 20th