pH change units?
OK, here are the results of my water testing:
Tap water from city source tested immediately, from a line that has never been softened: pH 7.4
Tap water, not softened, after 24 hour wait: pH 7.4
Reverse-osmosis water (R.O. unit is very small. I only can use it to top off losses between changes): pH 6.6
Softened tap water tested immediately from house line: pH 7.4
I keep a 55 gallon freshwater community tank with various Gouramis, a few Clown Loaches, a Weatherfish, a few Cory cats, a Plecostomus, a Black Ghost Knife, a stray feeder Goldfish that somehow survived being eaten, Glass Cats various Tetras. I have plenty of natural driftwood in the setup, no rockwork at all and various live plants.
I’m not entirely sure the pH is at 7.4, but that’s as high as the chart with kit I have goes. The test water comes out a somewhat deeper blue color than the chart. I came here (Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia) from the Midwest where the water is naturally hard and the pH ranges are around the upper 6 s to 7.0 out of the tap. If the consensus is that the fish will be fine at these pH levels, I’ll quit chasing the pH levels. If not, how can I make sense of this situation and deal with it without stressing my fish to death and without buying “pH Down” in the handy gallon size?
Gregg Bender
Owned by The Barks Brothers, four professional woofers.
www.nvsr.org
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