Anybody know of a place to buy Bullseye 6.5 ph regulator in bulk for a good price?? Or any other ph regulator that keeps ph at 6.5??
Looking for a good ph regulator supplier
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I know most people don't use PH regulators. Most prefer to just use the stable environment solution. It is better for the fish than constant fluctuations in PH. Unless, that is, that you are treating the water before you put it in the tank.
Pharaoh;2310919; said:
Yes, I am treating the water before I put it in the tank. The tapwater in this area is very basic (near 8.0) and I need to keep my ph on the acidic side. I do a 25-30% water change every week and treat the water before I replace it, so I go through ph regulator like crazy...which is why I'm looking for a good place to buy it cheap in bulk. Do you know of any other easy ways to get water ph down to 6.5 without using a regulator??
Do you actually test the tank pH after you've done the water change? If your water is actually that hard (which a high pH indicates) then the buffering capacity of the water is going to drive your pH right back up again. Using chemicals isn't a safe way if you absolutely HAVE to have soft water for fish. Mixing RO with tap is much safer.
That said, what fish are you keeping that you HAVE to have a precise 6.5 pH? What determines the hardness or softness of water is your kh, not a chemically altered pH.
That said, what fish are you keeping that you HAVE to have a precise 6.5 pH? What determines the hardness or softness of water is your kh, not a chemically altered pH.
TwistedPenguin;2311424; said:
My original intent was to get a motoro stingray, which I read requires a more acidic environment. After getting my water to the proper parameters I added a silver arowana, leopard pleco, and black ghost knifefish to the tank, and then decided not to get the stingray because I knew how hard it would be to keep my nitrates down for one. The fish I have in there now are thriving in the 6.5 ph that I had prepared for the stingray so i don't want to stress and possibly kill them by starting to use the regular untreated and alkaline tapwater. I do test my tank ph regularly and it stays at 6.5 like it should, but I have not tested for water hardness in a while. I will do that when I get home from work, but i never considered it to be as important as tank ph (I know they are related however). What does RO stand for?
Most of the fish that are in your tank would readily adapt to the PH that is in your tank. You should try and switch them over.
I use to do the same as you for a long time. Treating my tap water and using a buffer to lower my ph to what i thought was good for my fish. And then I started reeading how most if not all fish will adapt to the ph that is in your tap water. What got me to stop using those buffers was a guy that lives local to me that has alot of discus and uses our 7.8ph tap water to house the fish in. It is more important to have a stable ph than a exact number. Right now your fish are suffering thru a ph swing everytime you do a wc. Those buffers you are using keep working for a while and then stop. And if your wc schedule is not before this stop happens then they get a ph swing which is pretty stressful . If you are certain you need a exact ph the using a RO water filter and mixing that to your tap water in a certain % will get you the right ph you desire.
hybridtheoryd16;2313291; said:
Yeah, I know the buffer does not keep a constant ph forever, but I do pretty massive water changes at least once a week and I test my ph regularly. Believe it or not it does stay at a constant ph of 6.5. I really do want to keep my ph at 6.5 because of fish I am planning to add in the near future, and for my arowana's benefit. It would probably save me a lot of money to use a RO filter instead of going through ph regulator like crazy all the time, is it hard to set one up and maintain it?? Are they expensive??
BTB0923;2311498; said:
I've tried to explain this before and got jumped on so I'm a little leary of trying to help. Just let me say that you're better off measuring for kh than you are for pH & not adding chemicals or buffers. Soft water is a 'low kh' and hard water is a 'high kh'. pH can be changed with chemicals but the hardenss/softeness (the kh) stays the same and that's what the fish sense. The fish you have will do perfectly fine in your tap water as long as its stable. Which it's not if you're messing with it with every water change. My Discus live in my very hard water and are thriving, growing and spawning. RO is "reverse osmosis" water.
TwistedPenguin;2314669; said:
Thanks for the advice. I find it surprising that your discus are spawning in hard water. I've read that discus will not breed in a ph any higher than 6.8...do you know what your ph is? Also, what is the kh of your tank?