The Puffer Forum

Here are my stats as of this morning and a 2/3 water change last night:

Sg- 0.005
ammonia- 0
pH- 8
KH/GH- 71.6
Temp- 79.6

How's this sound for F8's and Bumblebee gobies? I'm concerned the KH/GH is too low. How do I fix this if that's the case?

what are your nitrates and nitrites?

nitrate- 20ppm
nitrite- 0

I do know that if you have natural drift wood in the tank, it has a softening effect to the water that might be a cause of the lower kh and gh levels in the water. I really would not worry too much about it though. Everything sounds really good, imo.

Is that KH or GH?

Water parameters sound fine for a Figure 8. Try to keep the nitrates as low as possible. I'd remove any driftwood, if you have in the tank. Use aragonite substrate to help

How can anyone say that the water parameters are "fine" when we do not know the KH and the nitrate is 20 ppm?

KH is critcal for F-8s, and 20 ppm nitrate is acceptable, bit too high to be "fine".

I didn't say they were great, just fine. I believe acceptable is pretty much the same as fine. I was speaking about the numbers that were given.

*edited by PP*

"Fine" means just what it says. A good place to be.

"Acceptable" implies that the readings are not immediate danger to the fish but should be improved.

Those are not at all the same to me.

Blaine wrote:...

I thought you left.
No seriously though guys stop, just stop.

Fine - Satisfactory; acceptable:

Acceptable - worthy of acceptance or satisfactory, judged to be in conformity with approved usage, meeting requirements,adequate for the purpose


As stated before I was banned and my posts removed....By definition from the dictionary RTR is still wrong

And so are you for using someone else's account after being banned. Now that account is banned too. Stop being such a child.

Ohhh seems I missed the party.. That's what I get for sleeping in

Oh man what wrong here? It went wayyyyy off topic here.