FishProfiles.com Message Forums |
| faq | etiquette | register | my account | search | mailbox |
 | PH Kit? |
Sea_mo Small Fry Posts: 13 Kudos: 13 Votes: 0 Registered: 13-Nov-2004   | i see lots of people talking about ammonia, nitrate and PH. i recently got a tank and 2 small gold fish. is it nessesary to get the kit to test the water? |
 Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:23 |      |
Lindy      Administrator Show me the Shishies! Posts: 1507 Kudos: 1350 Votes: 730 Registered: 25-Apr-2001   | Its best to have a pH, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate test kit if you can. These are the things we rely on to tell us when water quality is not as it should be. Quite often illnesses can be linked back to your water. At the very least I recommend the first 3 i listed.  Before you criticize someone walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away and you have their shoes. |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:23 | |
| Sea_mo Small Fry Posts: 13 Kudos: 13 Votes: 0 Registered: 13-Nov-2004 | Ok, thanks for the advice |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:23 | |
terranova Fish Master Posts: 1984 Kudos: 1889 Votes: 229 Registered: 09-Jul-2003  | Ditto on Lindy. The pH, ammonia, and nitrite are the essentials really when it comes to water testing. Of course, your LFS should provide this service for free, but our tanks like to be annoying during the most inconvenient times.  Poor water quality often helps explain sickness or deaths, and goldfish, being one of the messier fish, should have the ammonia monitered closely. HTH-Formerly known as the Ferretfish  |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:23 | |
fish1  Banned Posts: 1727 Kudos: 1910 Votes: 58 Registered: 09-May-2004  | also helps when you get bored you can test your tanks get water from the stores tanks and test it to see what the fish are used to i was supprised to see that most of my fish come from a store that has like 200 plus nitrate in there water lol to many oscar tanks! |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:23 | |
 | |
| Jump to: |
The views expressed on this page are the implied opinions of their respective authors.
Under no circumstances do the comments on this page represent the opinions of the staff of FishProfiles.com.
FishProfiles.com Forums, version 11.0
Mazeguy Smilies