ElleDee
Member
I have a tank with dirt and gravel that has amano shrimp, nerite snails, and a well established neocaridina colony. The buffering capabilities of the soil have long since been exhausted and the parameters are as follows:
pH: 7.4 to 7.0 (daily swing from endogenous CO2)
TDS: 190-ish
KH: just over 1 DH
GH: ~6 DH
I have a new tank with aquasoil that is buffering the pH/kh and I'm remineralizing less, so GH and TDS are less. Water parameters in this tank:
pH: 6.4, maybe a little lower
TDS: 150
KH: 0
GH: ~4 DH
(Temperature is identical. They are unheated and in the same room.)
I want to move a snail and an amano over to my new tank, but do you think the difference in parameters is too much? I'm not sure how much is too much, or if there are some parameters that matter more than others. I am using the same tap water in both tanks, so the differences are entirely from the soil and my inputs.
pH: 7.4 to 7.0 (daily swing from endogenous CO2)
TDS: 190-ish
KH: just over 1 DH
GH: ~6 DH
I have a new tank with aquasoil that is buffering the pH/kh and I'm remineralizing less, so GH and TDS are less. Water parameters in this tank:
pH: 6.4, maybe a little lower
TDS: 150
KH: 0
GH: ~4 DH
(Temperature is identical. They are unheated and in the same room.)
I want to move a snail and an amano over to my new tank, but do you think the difference in parameters is too much? I'm not sure how much is too much, or if there are some parameters that matter more than others. I am using the same tap water in both tanks, so the differences are entirely from the soil and my inputs.