Well, I screwed up again. *chuckle*

I changed out the resevoir yesterday, with plans to give Champ a night in just balanced H2O with a bit of H2O2. Champ sat happily in a little bucket of pH 5.8 while the tap water in the resevoir 'rested'.

My tap water has a pH of 7.0. I'd added 1 tsp H2O2 per gallon to the resevoir (standard dose I use to prevent algae, and to speed in the dissipation/neutralization of the Chlorine in my tap water.) The H2O2 brings the pH down a smidge, but not much.

Here is comes...

Last night I got another case of the stupids: I moved Champ and the 2nd airstone back to the resevoir, and went to bed.

That's right... I never adjusted the pH.

Soooo, below you will see photos of pH shock, FYI. *shakes head*

Champ was in the pH 7.0 resevoir for about 10 hours.

I added light nutrients to the resevoir this morning (which bring the pH down), then checked the pH and had the head-slapping realization of what I had done. I gave Champ about 30 minutes in pH 5.8 to undue some of the high pH built up in him, then, not wanting to shock him again (by leaving him in the drastically lower pH for an hour or more), I pH upped the resevoir to about 6.5. I've read that even a sudden difference of .5 can shock plants (and that they need a couple of hours in a new pH level to "feel" the effects"), but I didn't want to go any higher than 6.5.

My plan is to gradually add nutrients (till I reach 3/4 tsp/gallon) over the next couple of days to bring the pH slowly back down to 5.8. If the nutrients alone don't bring the pH down enough, I'll have to dump the resevoir and start all over, since I already used pH up.

Yes, it would have been wiser to move champ back to the little bucket and do the gradual change in there, then move him back to the already 5.8 resevoir, but I was in a bit of a tizzy. *chuckle*

pH shock currently appears on Champ as "freckling" on a couple fronds of one of the largest fan leaves.

Also below is an updated photo of the whole plant. Before THIS, new growth continued nicely, but downward curl also remains, and is showing on some of the newer growth. This is why I changed the resevoir to begin with, thinking that there may be a build-up of salts/still too many nutes in the resevoir causing this curl. (no, I haven't invested in a ppm meter yet, but I probably will before growing the Sweet Tooth.)

Now I may never know, eh? Well, that's why this is the TRIAL run, I guess. *smirk*