JBL pH Test (3-10) turns blue?
Hello, I have a 190-liter corner aquarium that's been running smoothly for two years now, with neon tetras, mollies, and helmet snails. (I've been checking the water parameters with a stick test for the past two years. My pH was between 8 and 9. Unfortunately, I can't say for sure what the rest of the water is. I tried to counteract this with pH minus, but to no avail.)
After purchasing more Neos, I was shocked to discover that a few of my fish had hairworms, so I put them in a quarantine tank and treated them. I took this opportunity to re-run my aquarium (I wasn't happy with my old one anyway; it was my first aquarium setup). So, I redid everything. I got a droplet test kit from JBL.
My tap water has a pH value of 8 and KH 28!??
Why is my carb count so high? 😅
And if I boil the water or run it through an osmosis filter system then my pH test is blue!?
I had read that it would be somewhere between green and purple…but I really can't believe my water is so much harder now after all that…
Please help
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Why your tap water is so bad is probably at the house. Such high ph values cannot be expected from waterworks. A water analysis from your water provider brings you clarity. You can get a water analysis for free. This would make it clear how the water parameters of the drinking water would be up to your house. Not yet, in the house. There a house can be installed, which influences the water values.
"My pH was between 8 and nine."
That's very bad, because you've been in the alkaline range where ammonia becomes a problem and is absolutely miserable for fish like red neons, neon salmer, etc. The fish do not know such values from the natural habitats. And you don't keep them with such high values!
"Everything made new. droplets test set of JBL worried. My tap water has a pH of 8 and- KH 28!?? Why is my KH so high?"
I can't tell you that. If you can exclude measurement errors, you should conduct root research. Your source is either well water or tap water? Thus, a massive hardening by lime must take first place on the way.
"And if I let the water boil off or run through an osmosis filter, then my pH test is blue!"
I don't know what you're doing, I'm not standing next. You can test the osmosis water. Not the waste water! Perhaps the membrane must be flushed? Or exchanged?
Hello, I live in an old farmhouse, so we have well water and no public connection… the osmosis water I also tested – pH shows it blue and the KH value is here at 19…
In my basin, I have a pH of 7.5 (I got external water)
The Lord who had looked after me in the specialty business when I started my aquarium two years ago, based on my water values, had compiled my crew.
Only a few months ago I started to really deal with matter.
So please do not blame any accusations due to false advice in the past .😄
I'm doing so many experiments with my tap water because it's always cumbersome at 190l to pick up water externally when it's at home… it must be possible to make my water fishable or is that hopeless?
The osmosis system is new…
How did you make osmosis water from the well water?
How's that going to be done?
If your well water is so hard, I would see if a hardening system is installed. If not, congratulations for all water-bearing devices. They should be calcified very quickly. If no one is installed, a purchase would be worth it. Unless you live for rent.
But…
If you have such values, then you have such values and have to take appropriate effort to prepare the water aquaristically. There is only one osmosis plant or full desalination. Maybe a mixture of rainwater? I'm not gonna blame you who gave you advice when I'm off.
If you want to cultivate softwater fish, your effort is significantly higher than if you are considering fish that are better clear with harder water parameters, such as fish from the Lake Malawi, Lake Tanganyika etc.
At 190 liters until you are very limited in the species selection. There were also snail bars, fairy bark. Would be a real option.
No. Ask this question here:
https://www.aquariumforum.de/f/suesswasserwert-aquarienchemie.68/
But do you know why the pH test is blue?
Okay, thanks a lot!
This is a rental property…
Since next year there is a move anyway (this is not the only problem in the house) I will handle the whole thing as before.