Bass in Hard Water!

[Slippery]

Anyone got their peacocks in hard water?
It should be soft i know but what can you do if you are supplied with hard.
Buffering has always just caused problems for me and i don;t trust it.

Has anyone got there's in hard water and have they found a difference in attitude, color etc

 

[haynchinook334]

I would never chance it. Drift wood is cheap, and it'll lower the ph.

 

[Aphilophus]

mine are still small p.h 8.4 and there eating good, what color they have is good at 2". also growing well and very active only fish i would mess with the water for is discus or apistos other than that in my experience's fish are pretty adaptable.

 

[Aphilophus]

depending how hard your water is drift wood dos nothing for you trust me, my water comes from the tap at 8.4 and stays at 8.4

 

[mjuniorc]

depending how hard your water is drift wood dos nothing for you trust me, my water comes from the tap at 8.4 and stays at 8.4

okay... keep your bass @ 8.4... since DW does not do anything for your water...

question? have you EVER used a WATER test KIT before....

 

[Aphilophus]

ha ha ha yeah i have and do every other day, minnesota has a lime stone bedrock are you familiar with the workings of chemistry. being that my carbonate hardness is around 200 to 300 ppm.there is no way that i can buffer the water down with out r/o and that is juat to expensive in tanks as larg as required. so when looking at whether drift wood works or not you need to look at hardness not just p.h . And the fish will be fine and better off with out the p.h swings that will kill it so laugh all you want i have kept fish since 12 years old and i am 29 so i think i understand how to use a test kit

 

[Aphilophus]

slippery heres a pic of one of my bass just to show that its healthy at 8.4

 

[mjuniorc]

ha ha ha yeah i have and do every other day, minnesota has a lime stone bedrock are you familiar with the workings of chemistry. being that my carbonate hardness is around 200 to 300 ppm.there is no way that i can buffer the water down with out r/o and that is juat to expensive in tanks as larg as required. so when looking at whether drift wood works or not you need to look at hardness not just p.h . And the fish will be fine and better off with out the p.h swings that will kill it so laugh all you want i have kept fish since 12 years old and i am 29 so i think i understand how to use a test kit

thats preety cool... woow i didnt imagine you were so old....
but i will get the ffact sraight here... BOGWOOD/DRIFTWOOD.. LOWERS YOUR PH... and by LOWERING your PH... SOFTENS your WATER...
and from my understanding you are saying drift wood does nothing? interesting...
as far as ph swings water quality etc..... are you telling me everytime you do water changes your water params stay the same...

bro... I LIVE IN CALI... and my water isnt that great... ranging @ 8.0+...
ask me how i dropped it to 5.7 - 6.0...

otta curiousity.... did you just start with pbass...

 

[pwmin]

mjunior: if you're water is very alkaline (related to high buffering capacity), driftwood won't have much of an effect on pH.


Aphilophus: what does your name mean? at first I thought it was the one genus of Cichlidae, but that's Amphilophus

 

[mjuniorc]

mjunior: if you're water is very alkaline (related to high buffering capacity), driftwood won't have much of an effect on pH.


Aphilophus: what does your name mean? at first I thought it was the one genus of Cichlidae, but that's Amphilophus

okay... i said enough... no probs.... you guys are right...
i guess cali water is top notch...