NYC TAP WATER - kh

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Hello guys,


I'm wondering if other fellow NYorkers noticed any (recent) changes in our tap water - specifically talking about the kh value. Mine was always somewhere around 3-4 and now it's 0 !!! I had those TERRIBLE ph swings, fish are VERY unhappy I was thinking that my ph probe is going bananas and that it has to be changed since the ph would change from 7 to 4 in a day !!! Only until I discovered that my kh from tap is equal to 0 deg !!! T E R R I B L E ! :/


Any feedback would be greatly appreciated !


Thanks,


Voytek
 
Just had a pH swing (Im in Queens) a few days ago. I cought it right away though because I was getting a shipment of fish in a few days. I havent had a chance to test for hardness yet though. Just to busy.
I will test soon and let you know.
Matt
 
THD;4571090; said:
Just had a pH swing (Im in Queens) a few days ago. I cought it right away though because I was getting a shipment of fish in a few days. I havent had a chance to test for hardness yet though. Just to busy.
I will test soon and let you know.
Matt
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thanks for the reply man !


I'm very upset, I've been here for 8 years and never had to check the water before I was doing my water changes ... and just like before I didn't do it this time and soon realized that the ph was swinging from 7.2 to 4.something ! CRAZY, I lost 1 of my fave fish and looks like I will lose 3 more :/ noooo good ! :(
 
Add some baking soda to bring the kh back up and stop the pH swings. I'd then look to maybe adding a pouch of aragonite to the filter or the like to buffer the water until it returns to normal.
 
start to put the ph back up as slowly as possible since the fish are already stressed at this point.As Postal Penguin said,use baking soda.That sucks though,sorry for your losses.
Just a thought here,I've personally never used it but I recall seeing some stuff that said "perfect ph" or something like that and it s tablets that fizz I guess and brings it to 7.0
Of course it's probably sodium bicarbonate anyway (baking soda)
 
thanks for the replies ! and yes, I will have to start using baking soda from now on ( sorry mom, I gotta steal it from your cooking stuff :P )

it just really "hurts" when you buy a fish at 1.5" and keep it for idk a year or so, soon to be breeding you think, nice size 6-7-8 inch chocolate cichlid and BOOM ONE DAY they are ( not all ) gone - thanks god I recently bought 7 wild caught babies and kept them in separate tank ...

once again thanks and heads up for the NYC folks
 
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