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woudl this be enough for a ph of 6.9 aorund for brichardi im aiming for 8, ill add it to my gravel, my tank is 30 lbs and has aobut alittle over an inch of regular gravel

http://www.bigalsonline.com/catalog/product.xml?product_id=20679;category_id=2409

also any other ideas or place in can buy this stuff, icant find it im my lfs'

Those crushed Corals are good but you can also use limestone to higher your ph. My Brichardi are in a 7.2 ph & they are fine.


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Most people are usually concerned with pH in african tanks. The truth is that most fish at the LFS have been bred so much that they already have adapted to lower pH, in which I mean that they can tolerate lower pH safely, such as 7 to 7.5. Now I dont mean the extremes, such as way below 7, but almost all africans I have handled thrived in lower pH than suggested in the books.

Now wild, F1, and F2 would still need the higher pH, usually the suggested.

Of course, there is absolutely no problem with using the buffers. If you would like to give the best to your fish, I give props to you.

I recommend using crushed coral(substrate) and texas holy(limestone) rock instead of using chemicals. They also sell a ECO complete cichlid substrate, all would raise your PH naturally. Maybe run the tank with that kinda stuff and see what your PH might raise too? See if it stays steady. Try small water changes(20% 1/wk 0r 2/10% 2/wk) and see what happens. Chems can be bad and may cause flexuations in PH which is worse than "not proper PH" for the fish in question.BTW I did not look at the link, so I'm guessing on it being a solution/cichlid salt? I just prefer rocks and substrate 1st.

my fish that i get are use to water around 7 so that is good, but the basic rules, if these fish are wild, try to get the water close to the wild mark as ya can.

what else is going to go in there. i have my b... in water around 7.6

nothing, gonig to try and start colonie