great I so hope this works!!
Donna
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From: Alyce W <frogg_lady54@yahoo.com>
Re: OT-Aquarium Water Question, Need Help!
Will do! I have avoided baking soda except this morning when I woke up to a PH
drop to under 6.6. I think Suzy (a Froggy Friend) came up with my bio-load
problem...FILTER! I had been trying to cycle this tank so left the two sponged
untouched and hadn't rinsed the bio-bags in weeks! The whole filter housing was
full of brown gunk which I thought was my good bacteria! I cleaned the whole
thing out in warm water with a paper towel and a filter brush. I left the
sponges in a bucket of siphoned out tank water, and soaked two new carbon
filters (bio-bags) in the bucket while cleaning the filter housing. The impeller
was BROWN! Once finished, I swished and squeezed out the sponges, replaced them
and the biobags into the housing, and did a 30 to 40% water change. Water still
cloudy, but PH was 7.6, kH 125 or so at 10:00. It looks like the kH dropped a
bit because at 8:30 I needed 7 drops to turn it yellow, at 10 I needed only 6
1/2. I will test again before bed and PRAY! Thank you so much for helping me!
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