Local tap water pH & hardness?

[goby1kenobi]

Hi y'all,
I've got a question about the tap water conditions in your area. If someone was going to set up a seahorse tank, and raise mollies to produce fry for seahorse breeding conditioning... they would want to know the pH and hardness of the tap water. Anyone have data they're willing to share, especially as regards the Wood River area?

(IME you can raise healthy mollies in freshwater if your pH is 7.5-8 and hardness are high, even if you don't have them in brackish. If the water will support mollies without it being adjusted, then fw plants can be introduced, thus making the spouse happier.)

 

[Aqua Man 07]

Have you tried contacting the water department there.

 

[Tigé21v]

Your water Dept probably has the test results posted online. I know ours does (missouri american)
Mollies are so far removed from the wild I am sure they would do fine in just about any treated tap water .
I know mine did

 

[South City]

Mollies are about as hardy as they get. I have two mollies in my display tank. A few weeks ago one of them disappeared. I didn't see him for days and figured he'd died and became crab food. To my surprise, I found him swimming in a half prepared sump that I'm setting up down in my basement.

In preparation for switching over to a basement sump setup, I had recently drilled a 3/4 inch hole in the floor behind my display tank on the main floor of my house. The new sump is down in the basement directly under the hole I drilled. It wasn't connected yet. It had just been filled with saltwater and was sitting until I got around to finishing the plumbing.

The Mollie jumped out of my display tank on the main floor, landed behind the tank and fell through the hole in the floor. He then managed to land in the half prepared sump down in my basement where I found him in perfect health and happily swimming 4 days later.

The salinity of my display tank is 1.026 and the salinity in that half prepared sump was around 1.010. So not only did that Mollie fall 4 feet to floor and then through a hole and then down another 4 feet, but the water was 10 degrees cooler with a .016 difference in salinity.

I'd say there isn't anything in your safe for human city water that is going to bother a Mollie.

 

[goby1kenobi]

I'm not actually local to the area, but trying to crowdsource some info for someone who is... the local water agency reports don't mention anything about pH or hardness.

 

[Aqua Man 07]

i know there is a little lfs in wood river they keep mollies