Water Test Before Cycling

[festo]

Hi,dont know if this is relevant but thought i would ask,
i intend to do a fishless cycle soon,so i thought i would
get some info on the water in my area.
These are readings i got for my area off the internet,can get more but i
thought these were the main ones,
Hardness-moderately soft
nitrate-1.88
p.h 8.55
are these good,or could they cause me problems?

 

[OldMan47]

Those values are meaningless to me. It is not that I wouldn't like to know what water is coming out of the tap. The problem is simple to understand. The water information you get from your water supplier is what they put into the pipeline at their end, it is often very different from what comes out of the faucet in your home. That is something we think should be recorded for each keeper's water supply at last once. Once during each season would be better because things like nitrates vary a great deal from season to season.

 

[waterdrop]

Hi festo, What OM is saying is that it would be a great idea to practice with your test kit and give us a full set of results for your water as it comes out of the tap you will use for filling your tank. Most of the typical master test kits we use have ammonia, nitrite(NO2), pH and nitrate(NO3) tests. Often, two different reagents are needed for the high and low range of pH numbers but your particular pH will really only fall in one range or the other, so pH results are only needed from the one which has a result not at its edge where it overlaps with the other one. Of course sometimes it does indeed fall right on that edge but its rare.

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