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You can find lots of ideas on Youtube and Pinterest... that's where I have found some of my ideas from....

And maybe there is something in the water that is lowering the pH because my other 55 gallon tank it’s pH is lower also to 6.4….

I left out a glass of water…set it out Thursday night and tested it Saturday night, pH test 7.6 So basically you are saying that there is nothing I can do? The lowering of the pH is just going to happen no ,after what? So what if I want to keep fish that don’t do well in pH of 6.0. Should...

Ok so when I heard that the lava rocks may be bringing the pH down I did a test. I took one lava rock and put it in a bucket by itself in water. Tested it Sunday when I began the experiment, tested it Tuesday it was still at 7.6 today out of curiosity I tested the pH its at 6.6.

I had my friend smell it and she said it smelled like sulphuric…. I am not sure what I should do with this tank. I get conflicting answer no matter who I ask.

Ok - I have heard time and time again that taking filter media from someone else tanks is a good way to get a tank started... this tank is close to being cycled the nitrites and nitrates are good - ready to go but all that's stopping me is the ammonia... and the pH. I would really like to...

Well I tried…. Could lava rocks be bringing the pH down? I am still thinking that it’s the water, but since I can’t find any valuable information on how soft or hard the water is I am going to buy the test kit for GH and KH…. I think I am going to do a 50% water change, and a friend of mine...

I also found this: WATER QUALITY IN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA Oklahoma is located in the south-central region of the United States; featuring beautiful hills, lakes, forests and the Great Plains. In Oklahoma, you can find areas that have a classic western look - with red dirt and buffalo roaming...

So I did a little more on water hardness for where I live... and this is what I found: I found this website where you put in your zip code... HOW HARD IS MY WATER? Enter your zip code and see if you live in a hard water area with our water hardness tool. Lots of people live in hard water...

I will see if they provide a website on the water bill. Ochelata is a small town..

I have googled everything that I can think of to try to find the KH and GH number from our water…. I can’t find anything …. I do know that we do get our water from Bartlesville.. anyway the test kit is like 11 bucks from chewy…. And since we are going to have more then one tank (2 55, 2 10...

So, I tested the 55 gallon tank last night and the ammonia is now 8.0 but nitrites 0 and nitrates 20 are good which I find weird. pH is still 6.0... not that I expected it to change... so I set out a glass of water last night and I am going to test its pH tomorrow night. I am going to go...

I get that but what do I do from here?

It’s not suppose to be this hard.. so what if I do test my tap water and find out the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate…. Would that help?

This what it says for Oklahoma, I put in my zip code and it found nothing. OK-Oklahoma: Oklahoma water is classified as hard. The average water hardness with 125 zip codes in Oklahoma is about 150PPM. Water hardness data is collected for 5 cities from Oklahoma, 1 of the cities have very hard...

I give up. I am draining the tank and starting over. I don’t know what I am looking for and I don’t have the time or the energy to mess with trying to find the dang report.

Again I started this tank at the end of June, I have added Seachem Stability and used Prime as a water conditioner…. I added fish food because when I first started researching how to cycle a tank they all said live bacteria and ghost feed the tank fish food for the ammonia so that’s what I...

We are wanting to keep Oscars and cichlids… Would it be better to drain the tank and start over with the cycle?

I am not sure what you are saying, I have had this tank running since the end of June…. I am ready to drain the water out of it and start all over. I am not sure why or how the pH dropped so low…. I just want a cycled tank so I can enjoy seeing some fish in it.

Ok, last night we noticed that our one mollie died…. So both tanks are fishless. I am fixing to order crushed coral and I am going to go ahead and order the test kit for GH and KH because we have more then one tank and besides they aren’t that much from Chewy.com, and plus I wouldn’t trust...

The only fish store locally is Petco.

The only report that I found for the water was from 2018…. I will say that the water where we live comes from Bartlesville a town about 15 miles north of where I live. And they have a lot of trouble with their pipes, and after each repair the water is very cloudy. But I can get a kH gH test...

Everything that you have said is the total opposite of everything that I have learned about cycling a tank. From using fish food to using artificial bacteria... why is that? Last night I set out a glass of our tap water to let it sit over night and this morning I tested it for the pH and it...

Believe it or not our one lone Mollie is doing great, but I will post pictures of the tank tonight…. I know we have Java ferns and we have 2 tree looking plants that we got from Petco….

I am serious thinking of just quitting, I have been trying to get this tank cycled since the end of June…. And I am just done with it. I am to the point of just letting it go and not doing anything with it…. I honestly don’t want Otto mess with it any more.

I was using fish food for the ammonia source and using Stability…. And yes there is ONE mollie in there now. Can I change to a different live bacteria, like Fritz 7 or Dr. Tim’s… I really don’t want to start over on this tank, I have been trying to get this dang thing cycled since the end of...

we have 2 55 gallon tanks… The one 55 gallon tank we started cycling since the end of June…it started out as fishless, on the 3rd of August we added 4 Mollies, 3 of them died…. We have sand substrate, lava rocks and live plants…. 2 of the plants we bought from Petco right from their tanks...

Right, I am trying to get my 2 55 gallons cycled…. I have watched several videos on Oscars and know that they grow fast, they are very messy…. But my pH in my 55 gallon long is low, registering on the API water test is 6.0, I am planning on getting some crushed coral to see if that raises...

And it tells you exactly what to do, water change, no water change, live bacteria no live bacteria…. Lol

Welcome, I am new to the forum and to the hobby :hi:

Hi, my name is Brandi. I am new to the forum, and my boyfriend and I are new to the aquarium hobby. But before we even started we have quite a collection of tanks. We have 2 55 gallons, 2 10 gallons and 1 40 gallon breeder. In the future, we have talked about upgrading to a bigger tank so we...