You need calcium carbonate so

1) go to a fish shop and buy some marble chips or shellgrit or coral or
limestone sand
or
2) go to a produce store and buy shell grit for chickens and rinse
3) go to a landscaping place or stone merchant and see what sort of
limestone or marble gravel they have. Check to make sure no pesticides
sprayed on it (fire ants) and give it a good wash anyway.
4) goto the supermarket and buy the biggest bi-carb soda (ph up) 'sodium
bicarbonate' packet ya can so ya get lots nice and cheap. Also pick up some
'epsom salt' or ya may have to get that from a chemist/drugstore.

Now rinse off your shellgrit/limestone/coral/marble and mix it in with your
gravel. This way as the pH drops it will disolve and bring it back up to
around 7.4 to 7.6 usually.
The bicarb can be used to quickly adjust pH (by boosting KH) and the epsom
salt to adjust the GH of the water. GH is important too, espec for mollies

good luck dude


"janson" wrote in message
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Please help me. I dont know what to do anymore.

I have a 70 litre tank ish, 60 * 30 * 35 cm.

ive got 4 Mollies, 10 - 13 babie Mollies, 3 Neon Tetras, 4 Guppies 2
are pregnant, 1 cat fish (cant remember name) and 4 shrimp.

Im new to this, My tank has been running about since the 18th of
October this year. Ive had plants in the aquarium but took them out as
ive added (Proper PH 7.0) from Aquarium pharmaceuticals inc.

This would kill all plants apparently, they are currently in bucket.

1st of all my water went up 2 8.4 PH

Now its at bout 6.0 perminantly and i cant get it to raise up at all.
ive been doing water changes at least once a day too.

Stuff ive been adding to tank........

Nutrafin cycle. (Every few water changes)
Api tap water conditioner (Every water change)
Ph up (Every day till i ran out)
Proper PH 7.0 (Once yesterday)
Kingfisher British prof safe guard (Anti stress) tap water conditioner
(Once with water change yest) as ive run out of Api.

Please help me ive all ready lost bout 8 young mollies. they about 10
days old. i dont know what else to do. Apparently ive got quite high
ammonia but im doing water changes to try an combat that prob.