Buffering!

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How do I buffer larger amounts of water up to the pH I want during w/c? I will be taking 25% water changes out of my tropheus tank when they come and would like to know how to buffer the new water I put in before putting it in the tank! My water is 7.0 and i have it buffered in the tank up to 8.0! So how do I get the new water up to 8.0 with out having to add it first?

And would also like to know if 10% fat is too much for tropheus? And please do not answer that question unless u have experience with TROPHEUS because i kno there are people on here think they know what they are talking about beause they group all africans together. Sop please only answer if you actually kno thank you!
 
if you are using a substrate that buffers, just add water to the tank and it will go to 8.0 on its own. if you add buffers to the water, just add your tap water, test and add the right amount of buffers to the water.
 
toehead11183;1062147; said:
if you are using a substrate that buffers, just add water to the tank and it will go to 8.0 on its own. if you add buffers to the water, just add your tap water, test and add the right amount of buffers to the water.
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tropheus are very sensitive fish! to big of swings and they will bloat and die!
 
Question, do you have your own house? Or at least space to store a garbage bin? If so fill the bin get the levels to what you want, if possible let it stay in the bin a day, then transfer with a pump (or siphon into buckets...) Works well and you don't have to worry about temp and other problems if you let the water stand for a day. Of course that means you need room to stick a garbage can somewhere...
 
If it has a cover, easily over a day is fine. I honestly wouldn't worry about it if it was even a week old if it had a cover. Just make sure to use it up, and dry it out every once in a while so you don't get mold and such.
 
A good way to buffer and not use crushed coral as a asubstrate to do it for you is: take at least 1 try on a cannister filter and fill it full of crushed coral in a micron bag. It wont get into the impeller this way and by doing this (forcing water over the coral) it buffers more readily than just lying on the bottom of the tank.
 
i use saltwater sands in my lake tang tank. i remove/replace only 25% of my water at a time. i recently did a 90% WC because my tank was leaning. i replaced the water very slowly to let the fish adjust to the slight difference. no one was lost
 
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