Hard Water Woes :(

[EllieJellyEllie]

My betta jumped in the filter the other day so he could ride the flow down

 

[catfish4ever]

I do understand when we all make reference to the origins of the fish we keep, wether they be hard or soft water species. I'm no expert by any means, but most of our fish have never seen a lake, river, stream etc, they're all captive bred and reared with huge water changes with vastly differing parameters. They are hardier than most of us would believe but changes in water conditions need to be done gradually to allow acclimatization. Now, after many generations of captive does a soft water species remain so, if the breeders water source is neutral or hard? I'm guessing not, but that's only my thought, not based on any fact I know. What I do know is I set my discus tank up with a ph of 6.5, kh of 20 degrees. The first discus introduced settled in great as I knew the owner of the lfs who advised me of his parameters. I had no end of trouble with some I bought on impulse on a day out. They turned black, clamped finned. When I phoned the shop turned out they were being kept at 7.6 with 100 degrees of hardness. Poor sods!! Totally my fault for not checking first. It just backs up the point that knowing if a fish is a "soft" or "hard" water species may not be as important as knowing what they've been raised and, latterly, kept in.

I really do hope you have mistyped in this post between "degrees" of hardness and milligrams per litre!

That's why I was confused I thought you ment 100 millagrams of calcium per litre ir something like that I thought it was 100dh for a second lop

 

[elmo666]

Sorry for the error guys, may have had one to many lol. Should have read 2 and 10 degrees, oops.