How to get and maintain a certain pH level

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So I have never paid attention to the pH in my fishtanks water that being said now that I’m gonna have a very big Cichlid tank I want their colors to be very vibrant one of the things to get this to happen is to have a high pH. I am on city water and my pH is 7.0 There will be a there will be around 500 gallons of water that I need to treat so it needs to be something cost-effective and easy to treat that many gallons. I don’t know if it helps but I will have a sump and plan on running a plant refugium I have purchased the Cichlid sand but don’t know where to go from here. I don’t want to Drop $1000 on fish for them not to reach their full potential.
 
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Tj203 said:
So I have never paid attention to the pH in my fishtanks water that being said now that I’m gonna have a very big Cichlid tank I want their colors to be very vibrant one of the things to get this to happen is to have a high pH. I am on city water and my pH is 7.0 There will be a there will be around 500 gallons of water that I need to treat so it needs to be something cost-effective and easy to treat that many gallons. I don’t know if it helps but I will have a sump and plan on running a plant refugium I have purchased the Cichlid sand but don’t know where to go from here. I don’t want to Drop $1000 on fish for them not to reach their full potential.
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What specie of Cichlid?
 
Tj203 said:
So I have never paid attention to the pH in my fishtanks water that being said now that I’m gonna have a very big Cichlid tank I want their colors to be very vibrant one of the things to get this to happen is to have a high pH. I am on city water and my pH is 7.0 There will be a there will be around 500 gallons of water that I need to treat so it needs to be something cost-effective and easy to treat that many gallons. I don’t know if it helps but I will have a sump and plan on running a plant refugium I have purchased the Cichlid sand but don’t know where to go from here. I don’t want to Drop $1000 on fish for them not to reach their full potential.
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https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/high-ph-cichlids-health-risk-possibilities.709379/
 
tlindsey said:
Please read what Duane has posted.
I’m sorry but I don’t get how that applies to me I don’t want my pH at nine I want it higher than seven that’s what’s coming out of my tap. All I was asking was how to maintain that because I would think when I would do a water change it would make my pH fluctuate too much?
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The best source in my experience I've used was crushed coral. Place it in a mesh bag. You will have to monitor the PH until it where you want it. So adding until possible. I asked what specie of Cichlids so you could possibly avoid adding anything. Also all the links are for different info for both hardness and PH.
 
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The best source in my experience I've used was crushed coral. Place it in a mesh bag. You will have to monitor the PH until it where you want it. So adding until possible. I asked what specie of Cichlids so you could possibly avoid adding anything. Also all the links are for different info for both hardness and PH.
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Thank you it’s mostly going to be haps and peacocks.
 
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