1st off... to mods. - i wasnt too sure where to put this thread since it has information regarding plecos and planted tanks. so i apologize if this is the wrong spot and move thread accordingly.
anyways, i just recently found interest in planted tanks and decided to set one up a few months back. really got involved with it just recently, so the whole water chemistry science behind planted tanks made me want to play around and get it right. im a noob at planted tanks is pretty much what im trying to say. my goal was to get raise my Kh, lower my pH, and lower my gH. found a lot of good reviews on seachem alkaline buffer and acid buffer. went out and got it so that i can adjust my water chemistry to what i wanted.
on the seachem alkaline buffer bottle it reads "It may be added directly to the aquarium at any time." so cool, lets go raise my kH since my test readings were really low (3 drops on API test, which is roughly 53ppm) i wanted to bump it up just a little bit so i added the recommended dose on the bottle, which reads "Use 7g (1 level teaspoon) for every 40L (10 gallons) daily until desired pH is reached (this dose raises alkalinity by about 2meq/L)
while i was dosing the buffer my L47 decided to run into the one area that i was dosing. at first i didnt think it would really mess him up since the bottle did say it was okay to dose the tank directly anytime. plus the L47 didnt even bother leaving the location until after 5 mins of me dosing the tank. he swam away quite slower than usual. i didnt think anything of it, until an hour later. i looked at the tank to see the L47 sucking on the side of the glass and next thing you know he losted suction and flopped over sideways. i thought it was funny at first and he was just playing around. tapped the glass to see if he would move, but he stayed. thats when i realized something bad is going to happen. by morning he flipped himself right side up, but was still in the same area. still breathing... went to work and came back to find him dead.
sorry for the long story, but i realized it was my careless mistake. did my research on some other planted forums afterwards and they say to never mess with those things. lesson learned, but i just wanted to inform everyone else about my experience and the label isnt 100% true. my other fish are doing fine... but what if other fish were to swim by while i was dosing.
anyways, i just recently found interest in planted tanks and decided to set one up a few months back. really got involved with it just recently, so the whole water chemistry science behind planted tanks made me want to play around and get it right. im a noob at planted tanks is pretty much what im trying to say. my goal was to get raise my Kh, lower my pH, and lower my gH. found a lot of good reviews on seachem alkaline buffer and acid buffer. went out and got it so that i can adjust my water chemistry to what i wanted.
on the seachem alkaline buffer bottle it reads "It may be added directly to the aquarium at any time." so cool, lets go raise my kH since my test readings were really low (3 drops on API test, which is roughly 53ppm) i wanted to bump it up just a little bit so i added the recommended dose on the bottle, which reads "Use 7g (1 level teaspoon) for every 40L (10 gallons) daily until desired pH is reached (this dose raises alkalinity by about 2meq/L)
while i was dosing the buffer my L47 decided to run into the one area that i was dosing. at first i didnt think it would really mess him up since the bottle did say it was okay to dose the tank directly anytime. plus the L47 didnt even bother leaving the location until after 5 mins of me dosing the tank. he swam away quite slower than usual. i didnt think anything of it, until an hour later. i looked at the tank to see the L47 sucking on the side of the glass and next thing you know he losted suction and flopped over sideways. i thought it was funny at first and he was just playing around. tapped the glass to see if he would move, but he stayed. thats when i realized something bad is going to happen. by morning he flipped himself right side up, but was still in the same area. still breathing... went to work and came back to find him dead.
sorry for the long story, but i realized it was my careless mistake. did my research on some other planted forums afterwards and they say to never mess with those things. lesson learned, but i just wanted to inform everyone else about my experience and the label isnt 100% true. my other fish are doing fine... but what if other fish were to swim by while i was dosing.
