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A week late but here are the numbers i saw on the official city site. Sorry, it's not in English. On Qa, highlighted in orange in Paint are 'dureté' which means 'hardness' and the 106 average of the tests made last august. On Qb, are the number of tests that came higher than the government norms...

Ah, the famous rows of bubbles for every fill of water in a new tank! One of the early organic signs of life to come. Congrats on bringing a window of a new world to these students :)

Although i have nothing to hide (well not much), like most people, i don't want to expand on my precise location. But i can do a screen capture the next time i go there. Right now i'm closing shop, maybe tomorrow morning but more probably on monday. But don't worry, even during the new year...

Just to clarify, the 106 number comes from the city's site, and i'm not completely sure i got the right one, as there was a lot of numbers on their water quality page. The 3 local fish keepers did not give me numbers, they used words to the effect of 'slightly hard'. I always do the average...

Thanks for the link. One of the things it says is, of course, you cannot put a hard water fish in totally soft water, and vice-versa. In no way, i have ever stated it could be done that way. The main question: is my local water hard or soft? From 3 testimonies of local fish keepers, the tap...

Life is not just a set of numbers. Science is not just chemistry. I intend to continue keeping an open mind about the complexity of living. Have a nice day.

I'm sorry about your situation. Maybe i didn't comprehend the exact number i got from the city's site (there was a lot in there). But, at the time, it seemed to fit the other infos i had. Like you said, fishes have a complex relationship with their aquatic environment, so, for me, it is...

Yeah, i have seen a lot of what you describe over the years. But never to this extent, where a whole sub-species is ignored like this. Before she passed, i had Mathilde in the 25, she was the matriarch, she ruled even over the platies (to some degree)! But after her, pecking order was pretty...

Cruel to the fish? Hope i don't meet the criteria. But if someone would judge that by an extra strict set of numbers, that not even all the experts agree on, i would fit that. You're right, nobody can talk to a fish, expert or not. But one can observe in addition to calculate. If i have a molly...

I will take everything you mention under very sincere consideration. Having said that, even if i want to learn, i must also go with the experience i've had of the past 24 years. Like i said in a previous post, perhaps i've been lucky, but i've never had strange deaths in my tank. Every time i...

To Byron Extra infos: -in the 25, there were tetras (neons and cardinals) for years with the mollies. I transferred them in a new 15 gallons last year. -some of the water in the 55 also comes from the 15 -both 15 and 25 were originally filled with the tap water (not sure what the ppm was at...

Ok. But this is the number for the tap water, as asked previously. The water for my 55 comes, in good part, from my 25 that as been running for years with mollies (my last 2 were transferred in the 55). And this is what i saw about water hardness from McGill university: The hardness of water is...

So, i've added my rummy noses, after checking the water hardness in my region (106 ppm from last august, which is considered, if i understand correctly, moderately hard, which is just about what my guy at the store told me). I added 12 two weeks ago and 3 more three days later. So far, all 15...