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rdelval New Member  Posts: 1 |
posted 12-10-2003 09:41 AM
 
I have had problems with tail rot in my male bettas for some time now. I have about 200. I clean System 3 tanks, filters, and gravel with hot water (not boiling as that makes gravel color come off) and fill with water treated with Amquel and adjusted to pH of 7.0. Still soemtimes I would see tail rot happen overnight or in a week or two. Lately when I had time to monitor the tanks, I noticed that it was happening in 30 minutes to an hour. I checked the pH and found that it was off the scale, greater than 7.4. I am using the Estes colored gravels - Black, grey, Jade and pearl blue. I tested putting water with pH of 6.3 in a tank with the black gravel and overnight it had gone to 6.8. This is with nothing else in the tank. Just water, gravel and the built-in filter running, without carbon cartridge. I have just started testing pH in all my tanks. Black and grey gravel tanks seem to consistently run to 7.4+ and this is with fish and plants in the tank, and partialing one-third of the water once a month. The Jade gravel Tanks vary from 6.0 to 7.4. Only the pearl blue gravel tanks seems to remain on the acid/near-neutral side. Has any one else noticed this about colored gravels and Estes in particular? I thought Estes colored gravels were supposed to be silica based and not calcareous. Perhaps it is the substance used to color the gravel. I have noticed before that sometimes even after washing, the black gravel would couse the water to turn cloudy. Right now I am looking at removing all the gravel in 75 tanks to solve the problem. IP: Logged |
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