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    Default This water ok

    is my water ok for wild discus as never done wild discus before

    iv got a 80 gal tank I use for water changes and have bean playing around with water to make sure I can get water ok for wilds before just dumping fish in a tank im thinking of using for the wilds

    70 Gals RO water and 10 Gals tap and little aquasafe

    ph 7
    nitrate no3 10
    GH 3 d
    KH 3 d

    60 ppm on TDS pen

    is this ok or is the ph still to high
    and is KH/GH to low

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    Default Re: This water ok

    That water parameters should be good.
    I keep my wilds in tap water and they are doing great.

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    Default Re: This water ok

    Quote Originally Posted by sanjay21 View Post
    That water parameters should be good.
    I keep my wilds in tap water and they are doing great.
    That's almost all RO im using with only 10gal tap water used as my tap water has ph of 7.8 and high nitrates of 30-40

    was going to use a seachem buffer to lower PH to around 6 but this would lower my GH/KH even more

    and you must have good tap water sanjay

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    Default Re: This water ok

    My ph is 7.8 and tds of 275 from tap. I even had a male spawn in tap water and had some wrigglers. Key here is stable water, if you are planning on adjusting your water make sure its always the same parameters or else it will stress them. I would not like to mess with ph honestly, but if done right then I don't see any issues. Ph swings can be deadly, I also recommend once you get the water to your desired readings I would age it for 24hrs with an air stone and test the water again, mainly test for ph. Good luck !

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