Opinions on water changes (Part 2)

[shawmutt]

Another question about my water changes. I have live plants and my pH is around 6.2-6.4 (hard to tell with those drop tests). I use mostly distilled water, my gH is currently 9% dH, but will fall more as I use more distilled. What's the best way to drop the pH of the new water so my fish don't get a big dose of 7.0 water? Or does it matter since I'm only changing 20% and it's mostly distilled?

 

[azn dreamer]

I would say that it doesn't really matter since your using distilled water. I personally would use normal tap water because after conditioning it, it has got a lot of good chemicals inside that helps fish.

 

[d9hp]

Not really that helps fish so much as tap water is really good for the plants, there are good trace elements in it.