ph to low?

[aarone]

Well i woke this morning and fed my fish as usual. The only one that was out was my perc. The damsel and the strawberry pseudo couldnt be found. well no one except the clown took the food. i saw the damsel in his stressed out dark blue color bumping in to things and swimming erratically. It was weird. then i looked for the strawberry and found him belly up near a piece of LR. In my panic i looked for my test kits. Great, no color chart. Get a bag of water an take it to ***** (hey its free) well my ph was around 7.4, i figured thats way too acidic. So i bought some ph up, (my buffer has not come in from SWF yet) hoping that this will help me out. Why would the clown not be affected by a low ph?

 

[birdy]

clowns are extremely hardy, and normally the change in pH would happen gradually so the fish would slowly get used to it.

 

[aarone]

then why did my damsel and strawberry pseudo die? nothing else is wrong with my water i checked it and it checked out ok except the PH. It was alittle on the hard side but other than that just ph