How to safely raise GH & KH - Sick Puffer
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2022 9:27 pm
My Fahaka is sick.
Has been for a week. Slime coat disease and now a couple of patches below his mouth are raw and red, almost fuzzy.
Treating with Kanaplex- day 3. Not much happening. Clamped gill. Not eating. Not good.
Doing a water test today. The ph is higher than normal. Its always been steady. Dark blue, darker than any of the low ph. Between 7.4-8. It looks like 8 to me. Its so hard to tell. But its usually about 7.
So I pulled out the gh & kh. Its crazy low. Kh 3, Gh 2/3!
Its normally 9/10
I am thinking that this must be the answer right? Maybe my water company did something a week ago and then I did my weekly waterchange and he started getting sick.
What do I do now? I have equalibrium and Alkaline buffer that I have used before on my snail breeding tank in the past. But never with fish. I dont want to shock him. But i tested the tap and its still bad. What I don’t get it alkaline buffer ups KH AND PH but the PH is higher than I want, but shouldnt the kh be higher then? How do i up the kh without upping the Ph?
How can I start helping this poor guy now?
Has been for a week. Slime coat disease and now a couple of patches below his mouth are raw and red, almost fuzzy.
Treating with Kanaplex- day 3. Not much happening. Clamped gill. Not eating. Not good.
Doing a water test today. The ph is higher than normal. Its always been steady. Dark blue, darker than any of the low ph. Between 7.4-8. It looks like 8 to me. Its so hard to tell. But its usually about 7.
So I pulled out the gh & kh. Its crazy low. Kh 3, Gh 2/3!
Its normally 9/10
I am thinking that this must be the answer right? Maybe my water company did something a week ago and then I did my weekly waterchange and he started getting sick.
What do I do now? I have equalibrium and Alkaline buffer that I have used before on my snail breeding tank in the past. But never with fish. I dont want to shock him. But i tested the tap and its still bad. What I don’t get it alkaline buffer ups KH AND PH but the PH is higher than I want, but shouldnt the kh be higher then? How do i up the kh without upping the Ph?
How can I start helping this poor guy now?