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As you may know...I lost all of my fish plus a cleaner shrimp...the only change in the tank is that I glued corals using Aquastick...my pH is now about 7.6...what is your thoughts on why this happened?...Thanks...Ken
Will Aquastik lower pH?...
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I don't see the aquastick as having a big impact on pH.
But dead organisms will tend to lower pH for several reasons, and I suspect the pH may be an effect and not the cause of deaths.
Have you measured ammonia? It can sometimes be a problem when one thing dies, ammonia is produced, making more ammonia, etc.
But dead organisms will tend to lower pH for several reasons, and I suspect the pH may be an effect and not the cause of deaths.
Have you measured ammonia? It can sometimes be a problem when one thing dies, ammonia is produced, making more ammonia, etc.
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No ammonia and the dead fish were only in there and dead for an hour at most...
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But is sounds like a shrimp died too, and so there may have been other inverts that actually died first and maybe went unnoticed. In any case, I do not know that it what happened, but I've not heard to tank wipe outs from Aquastick and epoxy adhesives wouldn't usually lower pH in a reef aquarium based on the ingredients I know of.
