kingdamm

Hi Fellas,
I am hereby enclosing my Tap water Test report analysis. Will i be able to grow aquatic plants especially red plants Ludwigia, Rotalas ,Tonina. I cant find my KH & GH reading from this report as it has been mentioned as mg/L . Experts Kindly guide me...





Regards
Kingdamm

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Seattle_Aquarist

Hi kingdamm,

If I did the calculations correctly it looks like your water is soft with a dKH of about 2 and a dGH of about 5, your iron is a little high but most plants like iron so you should be fine.

Where I live in Seattle our water comes out of the tap about the same as yours. In the past my plants would occasionally show signs of deficiencies (usually Ca and Mg) due to our soft water even though I was dosing Seachem Comprehensive. I now add Seachem Equilibrium to bring my dGH up about 1.0 degree above tap water and no longer have problems.

I invested in a API KH / GH test kit and test my water a few times a year. API may not be the most accurate but it is close enough for my needs and let's me know if things are getting out of wack.