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From: atk@tigger.colorado.edu (Alan T. Krantz)
Newsgroups: rec.aquaria,alt.aquaria,sci.aquaria
Subject: (F) Should I worry/Water hardness/ph
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Date: 17 Jan 90 15:57:34 GMT
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Well, yesterday I got a water hardness test kit and tested everything
and came up with these values (I also tested Ph):

	Hardness        Ph
tap      ~40ppm         6.6
t1       ~210ppm        7.0
t2       ~320ppm        7.2

T1 is a 29h tank, T2 is a 70 gallon tank and tap water is the water I
put in the tank - tap water + stress coat + a little salt.

There are several reasons why t1 is less hard than t2 - 1) I got t2
used and the people who owned it previously used well water - even
though I washed it there could be residue (it also has a different type
of gravel). 2) I used a peat moss filter on t1 a month ago - this might
have been a mistake because one of my tetra died (I had 9 - now only 8).


Why am I concern about hardness - I was hoping for some baby angles -
should I be concern about having hard water - and why would the tank
water be so much harder then tap water? 


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