🐠 Enhance Aquarium Health with Mars Fishcare North America Proper Ph Water Conditioner Review

I was having trouble maintaining the correct pH in my aquarium and ordered this product which was recommended to me. It's ok but didn't lower the pH like I was hoping. I think it's expensive for its effectiveness.

I switched from an aquarium that was crystal clear and had a slightly high pH (8.2 or so) to one that had the correct pH -Had value but was milky to the point that it was disgusting. Changed 60% of the water, still bad. My once peaceful tetras are now restless and constantly chasing each other. The filter works perfectly with the new material. Lesson learned: Adding nutrition should be the last thing you should do when treating water. Shown is day 3 after a 60% water change.

My tap water is about 8-8.2. My fish (Dalmatian mollies, pygmy gourami, opal gourami, pygmy sucker catfish) thrive well at pH 8, but whenever I do a water change/degravel I clean the incoming water. Python gravel vacuum cleaner. If I'm lucky I can remove about half the gravel before about 50% of the water is gone. Ideally I would prefer to change 10% of the water every 2-3 weeks but this is the only time this actually happens to replace almost 10% of the water lost to evaporation. I have never…