Very hard water acclimating soft water fish

Hello all!
My tap water and water in all my tanks comes out with a dGh of 15, around 270 ppm. My kH is 0 out of the tap so I add a buffer in my tanks to increase kH and it lowers my pH to a neutral 7, sometimes 6.8. I’ve been using this buffer since starting the hobby and never had an issue with it causing any instability. I keep all kinds of fish with no issue because I always buy locally where my LFS has the same hard Florida aquifer water but I want to buy fish online now from Oregon and wow they have soft water with a gH of 32 ppm I’m wondering if the fish will just die in my water is this even safe to do? I know how to drip acclimate etc but it’s such a huge difference..

 

Hello all!
My tap water and water in all my tanks comes out with a dGh of 15, around 270 ppm. My kH is 0 out of the tap so I add a buffer in my tanks to increase kH and it lowers my pH to a neutral 7, sometimes 6.8. I’ve been using this buffer since starting the hobby and never had an issue with it causing any instability. I keep all kinds of fish with no issue because I always buy locally where my LFS has the same hard Florida aquifer water but I want to buy fish online now from Oregon and wow they have soft water with a gH of 32 ppm I’m wondering if the fish will just die in my water is this even safe to do? I know how to drip acclimate etc but it’s such a huge difference..

Depends on what fish you're trying to acclimate, some can acclimate well while some will fall apart.

 

Depends on what fish you're trying to acclimate, some can acclimate well while some will fall apart.

Yeah I don’t think I’m going to risk it it’s a lot of money to spend for that possibility

 

Plenty of commercial hatcheries in Florida. Maybe check some of them out for the fish you want.

 

Yeah I don’t think I’m going to risk it it’s a lot of money to spend for that possibility

What fish were you trying to buy?

 

I have high ph, probobly 7.8 in my new house do to having well water. I purchases fish from Aquahuna which is in floriday and they stated that there ph was 6.5. So I was ready with a bucket and some distilled water with a nutral ph to let all of the fish into.
"You should not bag acclimate fish that have been in a bag more then several hours."
Then I added small amounts of tank water over the next 2 hours untill it was about half tank water and half bucket water.
Then I moved all the fish into a quarantine with all tank water, and we netted all the fish and put them into the quarantine. That was in january, not long I know! but they are all thriving.
17 chain loaches and 4 sewllia hill stream
I beleive that many tank bred fish are adaptable.
Which fish are you thinking about?

 

I was going to buy cardinal tetras, green neon tetras, and black neon tetras, along w some orange neo shrimp. I’m worried all these species are sensitive to gh changes

Plenty of commercial hatcheries in Florida. Maybe check some of them out for the fish you want.

Do you have any that you recommend? I’m having a hard time finding really reputable ones

 

I was going to buy cardinal tetras, green neon tetras, and black neon tetras, along w some orange neo shrimp. I’m worried all these species are sensitive to gh changes

Do you have any that you recommend? I’m having a hard time finding really reputable ones

Shrimp should be no problem, but not too sure about the tetras. Try finding a lfs or some online stores that are in Florida. I heard bioaquatix is a good one, try aquabid as well.

 

Shrimp should be no problem, but not too sure about the tetras. Try finding a lfs or some online stores that are in Florida. I heard bioaquatix is a good one, try aquabid as well.

Thanks! I’ll ask my LFS if they can special order the tetras