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and its really really hard. around 500 or 600 i think. I did a 1-3 ratio with distilled water and the reading was just under 200.
I;m not happy about that but I figured the fish will adjust if acclimated slowly, it was the ammonia that was worrying me.
excellent, thank you both. I've been using aqua safe since I was forewarned that my tap water had chloramines and heavy metals in it. I didn't realize it provided a false positive.
Just moved, use to have a well functioning tank with a balanced pH of 6.6-6.8.
New house has weird tap water. After dechlorinating
pH reads 6.8
Ammonia sits at 1 ppm
Nitrites at 0
Nitrates at 5 ppm
and is extremely hard.
Only other source of water I have is filtered drinking water which is...