Help Understanding Water Reports

[Vranthis]

Today i went down to the local water board and got a report of the water.
Now the question is how the hell does one understand it.
I have included it below i would like to know if this water is suitable for discus and other SA cichlids. Could anyone also tell me the kH, gH of this.
all values are in mg/L
Cheers Nick
Broken Hill Australia

pH 7.2
Total Disovled solids 730mg/L
Conductivity 1320uS
Dissovled solids by calculation 739mg/L
Calcium 39.1mg/L
Magnesium 32.8mg/L
Potassium 15.4mg/L
Sodium 172mg/L

Bicarbonate 190
Chloride 224
Fluoride 1.0
Sulphate 154

Filt Reactive Phosphorus as P <0.005
Phosphorus Total as P 0.019
Silica - Reactive 8
Nitrate + Nitrite as N 0.217
Nitrate + Nitrite as NO3 0.96

Aluminium Total 0.199
Aluminium Soluble 0.064
Arsenic Total 0.003
Cadium Total <0.0005
Chromium Total 0.005
Copper Total 0.005
Iron Total 0.031
Lead Total <0.0005
Manganese total 0.0011
Mercury Total <0.0005
Silver Total <0.0020
Zinc Total 0.004

Alkalinity as calcium carbonate 156
Langelier Index -0.54
Sodium adsorption ratio 4.89
Total Hardness as CaCO3 232.8
Carbonate Hardness as CaCO3 155.7
Noncarbonate hardness as CaCO3 77.1
Calcium hardness as CaCO3 97.6
Magnesium hardness as CaCO3 135
Free carbon dioxide 17.4
Total chlorides as NaCI 369
sodium / total cations ratio 59.7%
Ion balance -0.77%

[April]

hi and welcome Vranthis.
not sure.but we do have lots of aussies here. i will add your link to the aussie thread...and they can or may help you. some may even be from around there.
next thing you need to do is go to profiles and add your flag. and.check in at the aussie thread. heres the link.

http://forum.simplydiscus.com//index.php?board=18;action=display;threadid=9355;st art=195;boardseen=1
and...theres aussie aussie aussie 1 link if you want to read through 79 pages.
so where is broken hill? heard it...but forget.

[jrpatter]

That report means!!!!!! buy an R/O unit

john

[BlueTurquoise]

Hi there!

Correct me if I am wrong but your water sounds like Sydney water. If you go to the Sydney water website, look up the Prospect resurvoir disctribution analysis and if it is similar to yours then they will be fine! Actually we are very blessed with good stable water in Australia (most areas).

I am pretty sure you do not have to resort to RO.

Sorry I cannot be more helpful than that, however if the report in terms of hardness and alkalinity is similar to water at Broken Hill, with no major differences in other chemicals then they should be fine.

Cheers!

[Carol_Roberts]

You can grow out juveniles discus in that water, but will need an RO unit to soften the water when you are ready to breed (eggs won't hatch)