Wild caught fish have a harder time adjusting than locally bred fish. Most of the time, your fish can adapt very well to most ph levels in tap water. You will have to acclimate them slowly to your tap water though since you have been using special water which may have a dramatically different ph than what you have been using. Unless you have super bad tap water, your fish should be just fine. I would test it for hardness and iron (if you can find a decient Iron test kit). I don't know about where you are, but the spring water I tested was very hard, and it may be these disolved minerals you're seeing as the "funky pink/orange residue". Turns out that the plain Publix Purified water was very soft and slightly acidic, just like an Amazon tank, and has been perfect for water changes. Our tap water here is near toxic, so what I ended up doing is going to Publix (local supermart) and buying a gallon of all the diffferent bottled water they had, took them home and tested them all for pH, hardness, etc. back to the water to make it safe for the fish and plants (if you have them)Īs for your water, you're going thru the same thing I did. In fact, if I understand it correctly, it's almost TOO clean for fish, and you have to add some trace minerals, etc. It's a type of filter that super cleans the water to the point of no minerals or anything at all left. First, all of us here started out as a "newbie", and I was probably one of the worst, so don't sweat it! lol.
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