pH too high?
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Hi Austin, welcome to the forum!
Your pH is getting up there, but I don’t believe it’s too high. When Mr. U Tin Win visited the site where CPD’s were originally discovered, he measured the water at pH of 7.3
Keep your water temperatures in the lower 70’s F and you should be fine.
Dennis
oh by the way, is water hardness significant? my local fish store calls the water liquid rock :roll:
@austinramirez wrote:
….. my local fish store calls the water liquid rock :roll:
I thought that term was reserved for our water here in central Ohio. :lol:
Going back to when Mr. U Tin Win of the Hein Aquarium visited the site where they were collecting CPD’s, the water tested at a conductivity of 250 microS/cm which is typically classified as hard water.
250 microS/cm * .64 = roughly 160 ppm
160 ppm / 17.86 = 8.95 dGH
In most water hardness charts;
51 – 120 ppm = moderately hard water
120 – 256 ppm = hard water
256 – 425 ppm = very hard water
> 425 ppm = rock hard waterWater Hardness Map of the US
Dennis
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