Ok, have a question for you guys on changing water. LFS reccomended 50% monthly, but I would immagine once a week would be much, much better for them. Only problem is I have well water, it is extremely high in iron and other minerals, is this going to be a problem? I have changed it 3 times in the begining of the month because I was fixing ick, I went to a friends house in the city with a few 7 g jugs and lugged them home, but I cant do this every week, it took around an hour to go, fill up, bring home, empty out tank and pour in. Any way I can avoid having to go to the city and just use my own water ?
Water changes???
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Heres the test kit: http://www.bigalsonline.com/catalog/product.xml?product_id=19377;category_id=3239;pcid1=3233;pcid2=
In short, this will tell us how hard your water is.
In short, this will tell us how hard your water is.
In many cases well water is safer then city water. I use well water for my fish and it is fine. The only problem is it has no O2 (oxygen) so do not change more then 25-30% at a time. Of course you could just fill a barrel with water and aerate it and it will remove all the gases and add O2. My well water is perfect for soft water fish pH 4.5, 0KH, 0 DH, and less then 25 us/cm Conductivity. One last note I would go to the haRDEWARE STORE AND BUY A CARBON FILTER FOR THE WELL HOSE AND THIS WAY YOU WILL REMOVE MANY ORGANIC COMPOUNDS. Sorry fopr the caps but im too lazy to retype that im out.
Some people tend to criticize me for it, but I like Seachem Neutral regulator. I have acidic water and it changed it gradually for me, so the fish did not stress, and now maintains it fine for me. I only add enough for the amount of new water I add, and it keeps PH right at 7.0 for the whole month between water changes.
They also have a product to get the PH lower, if you really want to. You will probably get divergent opinions on how important it is to get below that for your Angelfish.
I have also heard that adding driftwood is a natural way to lower the alkalinity, though I do not know if there is a conversion for how much it will go down per amount of wood.
On another note in reply to an earlier post, I really do not appreciate the assertion that I or anyone else is "short sighted" or not a serious hobbyist just because I do not own a conductivity meter. This is actually the first time I have even heard of one, so this is not a super common piece of advice. Sounds intriguing. It is nice to get the advice, I just do not appreciate the derogatory commentary having to be included.
They also have a product to get the PH lower, if you really want to. You will probably get divergent opinions on how important it is to get below that for your Angelfish.
I have also heard that adding driftwood is a natural way to lower the alkalinity, though I do not know if there is a conversion for how much it will go down per amount of wood.
On another note in reply to an earlier post, I really do not appreciate the assertion that I or anyone else is "short sighted" or not a serious hobbyist just because I do not own a conductivity meter. This is actually the first time I have even heard of one, so this is not a super common piece of advice. Sounds intriguing. It is nice to get the advice, I just do not appreciate the derogatory commentary having to be included.
I think you need to go back and carefully reread what I wrote. I never made any derogatory comments of any kind to anyone. I am the one who advocated the use of a meter for those wishing to go deeper in their learning and knowledge. I never said anyone was short sighted nor not a serious hobbyist. In fact I said you could get by just fine with out one. This is all in fun and I do not like it when people get nasty with me so I do my best to keep things friendly and civil in my posts as well. So please go back and read what I wrote carefully I believe you are way off base.
