[fishsandwitch]

Originally Posted by Naja002

I think its safe to say that any local breeders where not breeders using that tap water...... Unless they're folks that count a 5% periodic/random hatch rate as "Succesful"! Oh, yeah, they're out there.......

There's just too much TDS in that water to get much, if any eggs to hatch.

But there's always the claim:

Post #5 by Ihavefishwantmore--"I know it is to hard for the eggs to develop, but, what is 180 ppm ?"

Somehow they can never seem to explain it though.......

I know a guy that gets more than 70 percent hatch rate in our tap water. it is ph of 8.2 and his discus are extremely hardy