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What do you put in your tank? Not sure about gH, never measure it but many of us are using tap water without a problem. What is your tap water gH? Anyone ever measure the Singapore tap water gH? just for comparition.
Hi all,
We've recently discovered that cherry shrimp are unable to survive in our planted tank and suspect this could be due to the excessive hardness of the water (gH above 180).
Whilst surfing the web for ways to reduce our tank's gH levels, we came across a across a product known as a water softening pillow. Would anyone know where this product is available in Singapore or where we would be able to obtain other products which could be used to reduce gH levels?
Any help would be most appreciated.
What do you put in your tank? Not sure about gH, never measure it but many of us are using tap water without a problem. What is your tap water gH? Anyone ever measure the Singapore tap water gH? just for comparition.
Its very very low...almost zero for me (1 drop of the testing solution and color changes already). According to PUB, it can be 20-120ppm or 1-7 dGH.Originally Posted by Shadow
1 dGH = 17.848 ppm
Do u add any fertilizers in your planted tank? Any traces of copper, etc?
Actually we don't think the issue is the tap water as shrimp could survive before. More likely the increase in hardness was caused by a rock which we put into the tank. It's gone now but gH levels are still very high hence this thread.
do large water change that should help restart the water parameter but dont do it in one go, because that will cause shock to your fauna
Sg tap water gh is 1-2 immediately remove the rock do water change with pure drinkin water I said again pure drinking water not mineral water
ie distilled water. Get those 1.5L ones from NTUC. 2 for $0.95
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i use ice mountain for my fire reds i bought one box (12inside) 6$ so cfm no water problem but two weeks need buy one box to maintain
You're using mineral water to top up your tank water?
Ice mountain has mineral content, not exactly distilled water right?
Mineral water are not distilled water. Distilled water does not have any mineral content at all.
Wow thanks to all for the useful replies. We bought a bottle of blackwater essence from an lfs yesterday but may give the distilled water solution a try as well.
Will likely take awhile though, it takes us more than 40(!) drops of the testing solution to get the required colour change. Guess I won't be getting any more shrimp any time soon.
I have not measure GH/KH
which one is more important?
What range is suitable for cherry shrimps?
How does a rock affect the GH? Or how will i know if the rock i am adding will affect GH? Does Lava rock affect?
One thing about the distill water i got call LIFE is acidic PH 6.0, just to take note !
Thanks!
ice mountian is drinking water so it has nothing in it not mineral water.mineral water will shoot up gh i think
I think your ice mountian have some content inside pure water are those like JianYuan mention distill pure when you look at the label all is put as 0. All the supermarket have them some will lable is pure drinking water but when you look at the content it is actually more to mineral water. So got ntuc brand 1 carton i only use it to do top no water change. I still using age water to do water change.
gh more important i think as high gh will cause a molting problem which will cause your shrimps to die eventually
What do you have inside your tank other than the plants? Any rocks? What is the substrate that you are using? Post a full tank shot of your tank, it might help identifying the source of the high GH.Hi all,
We've recently discovered that cherry shrimp are unable to survive in our planted tank and suspect this could be due to the excessive hardness of the water (gH above 180).
Whilst surfing the web for ways to reduce our tank's gH levels, we came across a across a product known as a water softening pillow. Would anyone know where this product is available in Singapore or where we would be able to obtain other products which could be used to reduce gH levels?
Any help would be most appreciated.
Use PURE DISTILLED Water to reduce the GH not pure drinking water like ice mountain. Pure drinking water most likely means that it is tap water that has been filtered.
bro any idea where to get pure distilled water? those found in supermarts are not 100% distilled ...
Apparently NTUC has them...
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