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Originally Posted by Simpte
There are only 2 safe ways to bring ph down, and none of them involve adding chemicals to a tank.
1. Mix your water with R.O. water.
2. Add Co2
You need to find out what your KH is as this is important to know when altering water PH.
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I agree these are the only 2 safe ways of doing it but keep in mind if you stop injecting Co2 the PH WILL crash on you.
I myself when I first started keeping fish worried about PH alot but I could not tell you what any of my tanks are running on PH at this very moment.
I don know chilads can stand a very wide range as long as you slowly change it. I think if you took a fish from low of 7 to a 8.4 all at once the fish would more then likly get to big of a shock. The way I do my new fish is as follows.
I take the fish and the weter from the bag it comes with and put that in a plastic bucket with an air stone. I then have a water container ( bought at wal-mart the kind that will set on its side in a fridge with a spout on it.) with tank water from what ever tank this fish is going to go into. I then set it so it drops 1 drop of water every 15 sec. I let this run till the amout of water is 2/3 higher then when it started.
I can tell you I have never had a problem doing it this way.
Good luck to you
