Re: Water hardness

["Barry J. Cooper" <bjc3 at cornell_edu>]

>Hi,
>          I have a simple short question maybe some one could answer for
>me.
> I have just started with killies again after about seven years and
>found a new
> problem? "or maybe not" . I used to have to always soften my tap water
>were
> I used to live but were I live now my tap water comes out about 2 dh &
>6.5ph.
> my house does not have a water softener ( this is just what the city
>water quality is)
> is there something I should add to harden the water a bit or just count
>my blessing
> and consider my self lucky.
>                                                   thanks for any help
>in advance
>
>Keith Johnson
>

That depends on what fish you intend to keep. If you were to keep Nothos,
for example, you would certainly want to add salt (about 1 tsp per gallon)
and probably harden the water a little, maybe by adding some limestone.
Other killies like soft acid water. You'll need to look through some of the
books to see which.

Barry

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