Hard water tankmates?

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RyanM

RyanM

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Moving to a new house next month with city water that comes out of the tap at Alkalinity: 58 mg/l
Hardness: 153mg/l
PH: 9.0 S.U.

I have an ornate and senegal now (4-5") and will be putting them in a 125g or 180g at the new house. I looked through the sticky and didn't see much that would be a hard water type, so I need suggestions. I will have a lot of driftwood in the tank so that should buffer the PH at least a little. My idea was CA cichlids, but I need some that are large but peaceful enough.

Any ideas?
 
Lordy 9.0?!?!?! That's really high. Polys won't be a problem short term. Perhaps the cichlid guys here can chime in, but beleive its ok short term as well. Lots of seeded driftwood and natural peat to buffer recommended.
 
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Vancouver_98683 said:
Lordy 9.0?!?!?! That's really high. Polys won't be a problem short term. Perhaps the cichlid guys here can chime in, but beleive its ok short term as well. Lots of seeded driftwood and natural peat to buffer recommended.
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I have six big pieces of driftwood and plan to put peat or something similar in my canister filter to bring PH down a little, but its never going to get into the range of South American cichlids which would be the easy choice.
 
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clm08k said:
what about African Cichlids? I think those are 8.2+

yeah 9 is really high.

would RODI unit help alter pH?
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Not really too into Africans, plus it seems like they would be a little to aggressive to go with the bichirs?

I'm trying to find fish that will work with my water rather than modify the water if at all possible.
 
RyanM said:
Not really too into Africans, plus it seems like they would be a little to aggressive to go with the bichirs?

I'm trying to find fish that will work with my water rather than modify the water if at all possible.
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Good idea. Trying to change your tap water to match the fish long term is a headache. Ca would be my only gues. Better off posting in that section though the fish will probably adapt but thats like liquid rock lol
 
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