High PH.... Okay or NOT okay?

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Yikes, that is pretty up there. I guess you'd cut it with rainwater to bring it down safely. Unless you get acid rain...
 
Feisty;4684424; said:
Seriously you guys are killing me with the names. I thought I was bad signing up as Feisty.... ACLOCKWORKORANGE fantastic! :clap I almost peed when I read that....

Its HIGH... 8.4...
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:WHOA:

Take all your fish back and get African Cichlids. :grinno:
 
knifegill;4684313; said:
And be happy you have naturally high pH. We have no hardness here in Washington and have to buffer our aquarium water or the pH drops to ridiculously low levels. Like 5.5. Which is like the rainy season in the amazon but with threats of instability and horrible deaths if you do a water change from the tap. It comes out at 7.3 and degases down to 6.4. From there it continues to drop between water changes. So aquarists here must decide whether to buffer their tank water or age all their tap water before adding it. Most of us just buffer with baking soda or crushed coral.

No, I don't think I'd mind hard water from the tap one bit. It's all about stability and hard water is easy street for that.
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where are you at? I am in Olympia and on city water. Even a tank that has been a week without water change is unreadable on the low range < 7.6 test
 
aclockworkorange;4684756; said:
:WHOA:

Take all your fish back and get African Cichlids. :grinno:
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More and more that is where I am going...:iagree:
 
Feisty;4684823; said:
More and more that is where I am going...:iagree:
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Seriously, african cichlids would love your water... when your tap water is that extreme, its almost kind of like, what's the point? You can keep softwater, acidic loving fish and be constantly worrying/battling it, or get some african cichlids and see them do extremely well.
 
aclockworkorange;4684922; said:
Seriously, african cichlids would love your water... when your tap water is that extreme, its almost kind of like, what's the point? You can keep softwater, acidic loving fish and be constantly worrying/battling it, or get some african cichlids and see them do extremely well.
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I have an assortment, but when it does not work out, I'm not trying to replace them anymore. I do have some cichlids and really love them more and more. These are the cichlids I have:

Super Red Empress (with a HUGE breeding problem) On my 4th batch of fry in 6 months.

Apistogramma Cacatuoides - Triple Red (These are pretty small still - but they are my FAVORITE - so I hope I end up with a breeding problem with these!)

Nimbochromis Venustus - Two little deformed face guys I had to take home. Too small to sex.

Albino Strawberry Peacock - Two guys that came with a tank I got (they are rejects, I guess because they have black eyes) Pretty sure these are both females. One was holding once, but it ate the eggs.

Kribensis - that just ate their eggs :( I think I looked into the tank too many times and disturbed them.... Lesson learned :cry:

I am really thinking that I like Tropheus, but they seem to be very hard to find here....
 
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