Hi Larry, does your well ph change with aging the water? My well water has a ph out of tap of 7.4 but with aging it changes to 8.2 over 4 hours. I age all my water even RO.
Pat
I currently am using straight RO/DI water for my aquariums, but am thinking about switching to tap water from my well. I do have a water softener, but after reading about recommendations, I will bypass that. I can use Kitchen cold water and have a 30 gallon container that I can store it in until it is room temp.
My well/tap water parameters are:
PH 7.2
KH 120
GH 180
Nitrite 10
Nitrate 0
Chlorine 0
Ammonia 0
If this water is acceptable, I could gradually change over through 10% water changes
Tanks are planted with substrate bottoms (2 1/2"), undergravel filters and cannister filters.
I am pretty new at this and currently have 2 - 75 gallon tanks, described above, 1 -2o gallon tank, bare bottom with a bubble filter and a breeding pair. 1 10 gallon bb with bubble filter for grow out and 1 10 gallon with a undergravel filter for quarantine.
Any comments would be appreciated regarding any and all aspects.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Larry, does your well ph change with aging the water? My well water has a ph out of tap of 7.4 but with aging it changes to 8.2 over 4 hours. I age all my water even RO.
Pat
Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
Thanks, Pat
I do age my RO water at least 24 hours, but never have pulled tap water to check. I will do that. One concern I didn't note before was that my rodi water does come from a water softener, but I assume the unit filters out all the sodium chloride since my TDS runs at 0.
I'm concerned about the nitrite reading of 10. It should be 0.
Mama Bear
Thanks for the tip Pat. Aged my tap water for 16 hours and it only changed fro 7.2 to 7.4.
Thank you Liz, for pointing this out. I rechecked and had made a mistake on the readings. Nitrites are 0, nitrates are 5 to 10. With that being said, do you think the well/tap water would have acceptable parameters for changing over, and would the Discus thrive in those conditions?
Yes. But if you have a pH swing of .4 or more you will have to age your tap water.
Mama Bear
Thank You!