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Hard water?

Holly12

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Our water is hard....like......comes out of the faucet as a solid. Is that OK for an axie?
 
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Is there a such thing as too hard of water? I have a test kit that is showing the high end of the scale. The scale goes to 180 for general hardness and 240 in carbonate hardness.
 
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Kk, thanks.

My ph is also between 7.2 and 8 I believe. That's OK too?
 
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I live in an area with hard water - 17dH, 122mg/L Ca, 322ppm calcium carbonate.
I have had 6 axolotls for nearly 6 months and they seem to be fine with these water parameters.
Stability of conditions is important, and I have found that I have had to do more frequent water changes because the warm weather was causing an increase in evaporation, and increase in pH up to 8. I'm currently doing 20% water changes every other day to get everything closer to what comes out of the tap.
 
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