Boston gap water

[DrakeScree]

If you live in Boston... How do you condition your at water? I just noticed that it has a 0-1 gh.

[DrakeScree]

Ugh.. Tap

[aluka]

I just keep some in a large bucket, treat it with conditioner, and age for 2 days. But i don't keep any sensitive shrimps =/

[Kyguylal]

Same...I let it sit for a few days. My shrimp were always fine...lets hope my new endlers will be too. I have to get a new test kit

[aluka]

did you get your oebt yet?! =)

[DrakeScree]

They ship tomorrow or tuesday.

You know, my shrimps have been healthy and breeding in Boston tap. However, at times I get a lot of deaths and have a feeling that not many babies survive. Going to buy some gh conditioner from one of the forum members.

[aluka]

really? i have only lost one shrimp so far. I'm not sure about the babies, I see a few here or there, but they hide in my salvinia =/ i never find dead bodies tho.

For the OEBT, I would too. The cherries would be fine in our tap, but any higher like CRS or something I'm not sure.

[kuro]

If you have Boston Tap water and look at the MWRA report then you see we only have about 100ppm tap water but the problem is that calcium and magnesium is so little it less then >1dgH and that where shrimp will start dying due to molting problem, you can add some calcium sulfate and epsom salt to buffer the gH up and i think our kH is perfect at 1-2dkH. Also with Boston tap water they buffer the pH really high like around 9 and you need to let it aerated for few hrs to lower the pH back down to 6-7ish.

[aluka]

I never tested my water before i added it to my tank, really its at ph 9? My tank is always at 6.5-6.7 when i test it =<.

[CrypticLifeStyle]

My pH is 7.2-7.4 right out of the tap. We have amazing tap water in Boston compared to other city's to be honest. Prime is almost instant. I don't keep shrimp, but I do keep rare south american fish. I fill up totes, dose prime, run a power head til a heater brings the water to tank temp, then pour it in.

[kuro]

If you scroll down the website it explain why they keep the pH at 9ish but it will drop really fast back to 6-7 once it being aerated. Also on the site i like to look up the monthly test and it list all the chemicals in our tap water. http://www.mwra.state.ma.us/04water/...l4concerns.htm

[SBPyro]

Originally Posted by kuro

If you scroll down the website it explain why they keep the pH at 9ish but it will drop really fast back to 6-7 once it being aerated. Also on the site i like to look up the monthly test and it list all the chemicals in our tap water. http://www.mwra.state.ma.us/04water/...l4concerns.htm

I checked a sample from my house about 6 months ago at work and my coworker and I were surprised at how high the pH was until we stumble onto that site. But after aeration it does drop. With chloramine a dechlorinator is needed.

[Hobbes1911]

I use straight RO and remineralize. Yes I agree, the tap water is actually brilliant, 90 TDS here in the south end and gh, kh of 0-1. I just don't trust the consistency. Who says that those conditions will come out of the tap every time? And I like being able to tell and know what's in the water I put into the fish tanks. But then again, it could just be my paranoia.