Water Hardness Confusion! (long-ish)

"Jamesy" wrote in message
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NetMax wrote:
No problemo : )
The situation changes slightly if you are having trouble getting them
to spawn, or you find your average water parameters are not
acceptable
(ieH7). In either case, you reduce your fish-load (so you have
less water changes diluting everything), and/or you add more stuff
which will leech (ie: another canister filter with coarse coral bits,
some limestone into the tank, or aragonite, tufa etc), and possibly
do more gravel-vacuuming. However, the first step is as I indicated
to get everything settled, and usually, that produces stable and very
acceptable results. Mbuna are very tough fish. Clean water,
over-filter and a steady food supply and they will be spawning faster
than rabbits.

Thanks again for that, Netmax!

I've just realised however, that I made an arse of my original post.
The kH
/is/ greater that the gH, but the values were wrong!

The kH is 100
The gH 50

Does that make a difference to your advice? i.e. is it too soft?

As I've mentioned, the pH is about ideal (and very stable).

I'm ignoring the kH value as it is most probably artificial. Ordinarily,
kH is less than gH iirc. A gH of 50ppm is 2.8dgH which according to
http://faq.thekrib.com/begin-chem.html#reference is considered very soft
water. Don't let that discourage you. I've bred _many_ Africans in soft
water, and in lower pH. My advice remains unchanged. Find the point of
stability.
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"Jamesy" wrote in message
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(Snip lots of good advice!)

Thanks for that, Netmax! You've certainly put my mind at rest!

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