[Delphinus]

What do people use for adjusting pH if necessary?

QT tank is now down to 1.017. I guess I need to keep going, the spots are worse than ever and quickly approaching among the worst I've ever seen for ich. Certainly the worst for any fish in my care anyhow.

Water is starting to get a slight cloudy look to it, too. I wish I had a bigger aquaclear. I'm torn between continuing to lower the salinity or holding it here for a couple days while I go out and buy a bigger aquaclear. (Bearing in mind I'm not sure how best to to adjust pH, if need be, and that I'm not sure my aquaclear is adequately keeping up with the cycle - I don't have an ammonia test kit but I do have a nitrite test kit and it is measuring 0.1 --- however for what it's worth, anytime I've used it, it's always told me 0.1 so I'm not sure what to make of that).

I feel really bad for these fish. I'm not sure whether I've done them a favour by putting them into QT first or not. I've always just let them go into the main tank and let it be, and while spots usually would appear, never quite so bad as this, and always went away after the first week.

These fish are at about 1.5 weeks in QT. I thought things were going really well as they ate with gusto and showed no signs of spots until this week.

Especially after the cuke nuke incident in my cube tank this week, the stress of this is starting to take its toll. Why do we do this again? This is fun, right? I'm really starting to wonder about this..