Ray, thank you for such valuable input! Okay, you might not have misread, I have been like a chicken with it's head cut off so it might have been MY fault!
Here are test results right after I did a 60 to 70% water change: PH-7.6, kH-107.4, gH-161, ammonia-0, nitrite-betwen 1.0 and 2.0 (hard to tell with the color, but there should NOT have been this at all! Contamination, maybe?)I added a double dose of AmQuel+ for the nitrites. In about 6 hours I tested again and PH had gone DOWN! Looked awfully light on the test, I was sure it was 6.8 to 7.0. KH had dropped to 53.7+ I added baking soda, the values went up. I added more soda in the middle of the night. This morning it was 7.6 PH, 89 kH, 0.50 ammonia, 0.25 nitrites. All day the same, it started dropping again tonight. PH 6.6, kH under 53. The tank is so cloudy I cannot see the frogs!
Tomorrow, I'll do another water change and will just continue to do large daily water changes until I get that coral sand and it is working!
Tests now are: PH-6.8, kH-71.6, ammonia-0, nitrite-0.25, nitrate-under5 but not quite zero. I have to add more soda tonight, and get the water change done in the morning. Does that sound okay?
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