FreshwaterFishJunkie
Aquarium Advice Activist
Your test kit may be to old. Its going be 2012 and your kit was dated 2008. Once you get a reliable reading of the water with your test kit I suggest getting fish that are more compatiable with your water source. Also a lot of freshwater fish can tolerate a wide variety of PH levels. Also beware of changing your water source to something like distilled water.
"Some people use distilled water for household aquariums because it lacks the chemicals found in tap water supplies. It is important to supplement distilled water when using it for fishkeeping; it is too pure to sustain proper chemistry to support an aquarium ecosystem" - Wikipedia Distilled water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freshwater fish actually need some minerals and pure/Ultra purwe water sources will cause the fish to die from the lack of minerals to help them stay healthy.
"Some people use distilled water for household aquariums because it lacks the chemicals found in tap water supplies. It is important to supplement distilled water when using it for fishkeeping; it is too pure to sustain proper chemistry to support an aquarium ecosystem" - Wikipedia Distilled water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freshwater fish actually need some minerals and pure/Ultra purwe water sources will cause the fish to die from the lack of minerals to help them stay healthy.
