Keeping water levels right

[tank125]

lol its PPM sorry teacher.

That is really soft, as is mine, you may want to first monitor your pH for swings and second, consider a buffer of some sort. I pass my water through crushed coral first to increase hardness from 40ppm to 1000ppm or so. This eliminated the violent pH swings. Your pH will fluctuate faster/easier as you increase bio-load as well.

 

[Deaths Sting]

i test Ph twice a week always been 6.2 - 7.2 never more never less

80% of the time its 6.8

 

[tank125]

i test Ph twice a week always been 6.2 - 7.2 never more never less

80% of the time its 6.8

That is a very dangerous amount of fluctuation. You should put some CC in that FX5

 

[Meow Mix133]

New forum for water levels now more specific

 

[tank125]

New forum for water levels now more specific

 

[ShadowStryder]

My water out of tap is very hard (300 ppm), very alkaline (300ppm) and PH (7.8)
but it is very consistent and stable. So I don't mess with it at all. In actuality my
PH is higher (8.2) in my setups.

 

[Nic]

New forum for water levels now more specific

would have been better to add it to this thread