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Well finally all moved in and setup one of my tanks. After filling it up I checked to see what the water conditions were around here. Ph is at 9.0 :eek:. Dont have any ph down or declorinator yet. Its on the list though. Never lived somewheres where the ph was so high.

Now with this ph being high like that am I going to have to use ph down every water change?
 
HOLY FREAK?!?!?! thats practically MILK! geez. wait so which of your THREE tanks did you set up lol
 
A few questions for you:
What's the pH out of the tap? How about in a bucket after 24 hours? What substrate/decor is in the tank? What fish are you planning on keeping?

I would really not recommend using pH down. That's probably asking for trouble.
 
NEVER USE ANY CHEMICALS TO ADJUST PH!!!! Try adding some driftwood to your tank to help lower the PH.
 
yeah using chemicals and doing water changes you end up with a highly fluxuating PH level which is actually more harmful to fish than having abnormal pH levels that they can adapt to.... i dont know if fish Can even LIVE in 9.0 water... but if you wanted to acclimate them you'd have to get an RO kit and fill your tank with that so the pH is neutral and then slowly with each water change (20%) weekly slowly put in less and less RO water and more straight tap (well with conditioner of course) until over a couple of months your fish have a adapted into your tap ph so you can do straight water changes. unfortunately you'd to have an acclimation tank just for new fish to adapt in....
 
(the_squared_man)^2;2196499; said:
HOLY FREAK?!?!?! thats practically MILK! geez. wait so which of your THREE tanks did you set up lol
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None I havent made it to pick them up yet. Going to do that tomarrow after I get back from fishing/boating.


andyjs;2196518; said:
A few questions for you:
What's the pH out of the tap? How about in a bucket after 24 hours? What substrate/decor is in the tank? What fish are you planning on keeping?

I would really not recommend using pH down. That's probably asking for trouble.
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The ph right out of the tap is 9.0 . Haven't filled a bucket with water yet and let it sit so I am not sure what that would be. no substrate or decor in the tank right now. Just running 2 filters on it for the time being. I was going to keep a group of rosy barbs in it with a pleco. Its only a 15 gallon tank so I was figuring on maybe 4-5 rosy barbs, albino bristlenose pleco, maybe a shrimp or 2 not really sure.


I got the filter media from a buddy because him and I run the same filter and he is tearing down his tank and going bigger. So we swapped the media. And guess what!!! He had snails aparently....... So I guess when you ask if I have anything in the tank right now I would have to say snails. So far counted like 6 of them. But I will battle them at a different time.
 
lol. theres some natural stuff that helps with pH.... or what was it...
PEAT i think naturally lowers your pH so put that in your filter
 
You could try peat and driftwood, but if water is buffered up to 9 out of the tap, they might not make a big difference. You best bet is to mix in a fixed percent of R/O water with water changes. This would lower the hardness of the water and make it much easier to bring down the pH. I haven't tried those species in that high of a pH, but I kept clown plecos in a tank with a pH near 10 for a while and they were fine. Fish can definitely live in that high of a pH, but the species you plan to keep wouldn't prefer it. Also, since you are running basically an empty tank of your tap water, it is essentially the same thing as the bucket experiment I mentioned, so you really don't need to worry about trying it.
 
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