Bridget
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Hello am super new to fish.
The tap water at my dorm is about 180ppm and maxes out my test. I collect rain water and run it through a coffee filter and correct the PH. The GH for the rain water comes out to 75. My fish are my fish are doing *okay* with the hard water but I do feel bad, I want to lower the GH to a more acceptable level but slowly. The high range for GH is 120 which comes out to about a 50/50 mix of rain water and tap water. I know that rain water has less PH buffer and the stuff I collected was about at a 6 before I corrected it. My tap water is a pretty consistent 7 but sometimes a 7.5. I feel like this is a pretty good system, but IDK I'm still pretty new and don't know a ton about chemisty, specifically water chemistry. Is there anything that is not good about this system? Also I have a lot of PH strips and test pretty frequently and every bottle of rain water I collect but I haven't found a way to test GH for cheap. The cheapest thing I could find was a pack of 25 5 in 1 for 12$. I also have a guinea pig. My friend's guinea pig died from kidney stones and she said it was due to there being too much calcuI'm in the water he drank. Since I am already doing so much with my fish water, I figured why not get him good water to drink. How do you remove calcuI'm from drinking water?
The tap water at my dorm is about 180ppm and maxes out my test. I collect rain water and run it through a coffee filter and correct the PH. The GH for the rain water comes out to 75. My fish are my fish are doing *okay* with the hard water but I do feel bad, I want to lower the GH to a more acceptable level but slowly. The high range for GH is 120 which comes out to about a 50/50 mix of rain water and tap water. I know that rain water has less PH buffer and the stuff I collected was about at a 6 before I corrected it. My tap water is a pretty consistent 7 but sometimes a 7.5. I feel like this is a pretty good system, but IDK I'm still pretty new and don't know a ton about chemisty, specifically water chemistry. Is there anything that is not good about this system? Also I have a lot of PH strips and test pretty frequently and every bottle of rain water I collect but I haven't found a way to test GH for cheap. The cheapest thing I could find was a pack of 25 5 in 1 for 12$. I also have a guinea pig. My friend's guinea pig died from kidney stones and she said it was due to there being too much calcuI'm in the water he drank. Since I am already doing so much with my fish water, I figured why not get him good water to drink. How do you remove calcuI'm from drinking water?