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For anyone interested, I'm a moron!
It hit me last night while falling asleep. I used two pieces of ceramic tile (kind with the clay backside) attached to my driftwood to weigh it down under the substrate.
Tested a left-over piece I had in the garage in a bucket with tap water and an air stone. BOOM. Not even two hours in and the water was at 8.2. seeing that purple in the test tube was a huge bummer and a huge success.
Took the better part of the day but I was able to get those tiles out. Replaced them with a couple pieces of thick acrylic I had laying around from a tank I cut up.
Left my original substrate in but did add 100 lbs of fresh sand on top.
Added a ton of plants I had growing out in my sump and besides a bit of cloud in the water we are good to
Solid 7.4 ph so far.
I did acclimate the fish slowly, maybe it’s just me but they seem way less darty. Those discus are even coming right up to the glass now. With all the chaos from today everyone still ate like pigs!
It hit me last night while falling asleep. I used two pieces of ceramic tile (kind with the clay backside) attached to my driftwood to weigh it down under the substrate.
Tested a left-over piece I had in the garage in a bucket with tap water and an air stone. BOOM. Not even two hours in and the water was at 8.2. seeing that purple in the test tube was a huge bummer and a huge success.
Took the better part of the day but I was able to get those tiles out. Replaced them with a couple pieces of thick acrylic I had laying around from a tank I cut up.
Left my original substrate in but did add 100 lbs of fresh sand on top.
Added a ton of plants I had growing out in my sump and besides a bit of cloud in the water we are good to
Solid 7.4 ph so far.
I did acclimate the fish slowly, maybe it’s just me but they seem way less darty. Those discus are even coming right up to the glass now. With all the chaos from today everyone still ate like pigs!
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