Sophia Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 My Dad's water comes out of the tap at 10.7 pH - are there any fish other than cichlids that tolerate or like that sort of water? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuri08 Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 not even cichlids would handle that im not sure if there would be any except maybe mollies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 That's high! Where does he live? Is this council water or a well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 My Dad's water comes out of the tap at 10.7 pH - are there any fish other than cichlids that tolerate or like that sort of water? Wow, you sure about that? That would kill pretty much anything. I'm not even sure that would be considered drinkable still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 Mine comes out of the tap at off-the-chart purple but very quickly drops to a more "normal" level because the GH/KH is very low. If the water has a low hardness it should be pretty easy to adjust it to a more suitable level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted February 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 I thought it seemed high but that's what he said, unless there was a typo in the email. He used to keep convicts and angels in water he adjusted the pH down for. He's in England where they put iron filings on their porridge... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 The inlaws kettle in Kent had big chunks of what I can only assume was limescale clunking around in the bottom of it from boiling the hard water for a billion cups of tea a day. Many LFS's there sell RO water by the litre so that could be an easy way to soften it up if its too hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 He may be confusing pH with the German GH/KH. That pH would be like caustic soda or drain cleaner. In many places their drinking water is extremely hard. In Christchurch we have people breeding neons and other tetras in tap water which over there would be regarded as very soft. Should buy shares in a soap factory over there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirt Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Wow, you sure about that? That would kill pretty much anything. I'm not even sure that would be considered drinkable still. :sage: well they say lake horowhenua water is toxic enough to kill a child I'd have to agree with alanmin here I dot believe it would be safe to drink and he may be getting them mixed up, Sophia maybe you could ask him again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Where we lived in the southwest of england the water was so hard that there would be precipitation in a pot of water by the time it came to the boil if the lid was off. Our water came off the chalkdowns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 It bugs me that people use GH/KH in NZ. If you get a chemical analysis done here the hardness comes back on the report as mg/litre expressed as calcium carbonate. This is ppm w/v--which would probably annoy any real chemists out there. Tap water in Christchurch is about 45ppm which is about 2.5 KH and would be about 1/4 of the figure you quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted February 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 He's in East Anglia and I've sent him an email asking to confirm if he meant pH or hardness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted February 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 It is very hard our water, we have to use softner before it goes into the boiler, and the eating system has to be descaled & flushed every year. Luckily, it is included with the service contract. Of course we can drink the water, it is treated.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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