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Andrea's Blog – August 2010 Archive (2)

Progress Report - Week 8

Fish seem healthy, though I did lose another this week. But she had been swimming straight at the airstone for a while, so I suspected she wasn't going to make it.

I've removed all of the aquarium gravel, and put in the last of my clay, in the hopes of having a surface to help filter the detritus without raising pH:…

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Added by Andrea on August 8, 2010 at 1:17pm — 3 Comments

Progress Report - Week 7

I think things are starting to get dialed in.

pH has remained high, but stable. Nitrates are up, Nitrites got measurable but I reduced feeding and it went back to negligible. Two dead fish. Plants remain the same.

I had read in several places that gravel can raise pH. So today I pulled out the majority of the aquarium gravel:…

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Added by Andrea on August 1, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments