Foamy Goodness!

Crappy day all around.  Unfortunately for the people around me, when I have a crappy day, they have a crappy day, so I guess in advance I am both sorry and thankful to all of you around me who absorbed my anger this week.  Your efforts are appreciated!

Finished WK1 homework and went through my degree plan - one good thing is that I am lucky and do my work, I will graduate in Summer of 2013 with both my BS and MS degrees completed =)

The battle with my Fish tank continues.  Unfortunately the Ammonia is STILL completely out of control and the PH keeps dropping - which I guess is better than the PH raising... Anyway, I had the bright idea of buying a Proper PH 7.0 to at least try to control the PH problem.  I am not sure exactly how this product is supposed to work but I know what it actually did.  I changed the water on Friday and added this product in.  When I woke up Saturday, the tank was white - it looks like a white cloud washed over it and it was so thick you could barely see through it.  The product said that this may happen and this was still ok and safe for the fish, so did a PH test- 6.2.  It had dropped 0.4 since the water change.  I continued to monitor.

Well last night, the water was still totally white with zero visibility plus I had a nice foam effect going on.  Foam was forming at the top of the tank and it got so bad that it was toppling down the sides making a huge mess in the living room.  I tested the PH to see if the product had at least fixed that problem - 6.0 - so a big fat NO!!  I had to do an emergency water change and try to get as much of the foam out as I could.  After 2 hours of cleaning and a 50% water change, I can see more the tank now, the water visibility is about 30% improved and PH went up to 6.5.

As much as I love the API line of Aquarium products, I have to say that the Proper PH 7.0  is big fat looser and needs to die in a fire.  So whatever you do - don't buy it =)