Sorry everyone, the figures I gave earlier were what came up when I looked online tonight, however they're significantly different to the ones I'd based my stocking idea on. To clarify, the figures I'd been using were from a PDF of a Water Report I downloaded back in Oct 2017, which were...
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Water Report for
ZS 110 based on 24 testings from 01/01/2015 to 31/12/2015.
Moderately Hard @ 80 mg/ltr Calcium and 200mg/ltr Calcium Carbonate (14.0* Clarke, 11.2* German, 20.0* French)
and the PH values were given as 7.2 Low / 7.6 High = 7.3792 Mean Average.
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Compared to the figures I got tonight from...
Water Report for
ZS 111 based on 24 testings from 01/01/2016 to 31/12/2016
Slightly Hard @ 50mg/ltr Calcium and 125mg/ltr Calcium Carbonate (8.75* Clarke, 7.0* German, 12.5* French)
and the PH values were given as 7.3 Low / 7.7 High = 7.425 Mean Average.
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Both sets of figures came up based on Post Code (DH6
xxx, btw, just in case there are any local members out there with experience of similar water conditions) and as I haven't moved in the three months or so and presumably the water conditions themselves shouldn't have changed that much, I can only guess that either there's been an admin/input error when the figures were entered online (note the different zoning numbers) or perhaps there's been a change in the way my water company records/administers it's zoning areas.
I'm tempted to believe the 'harder' figures are correct as where I live is slightly elevated and we've traditionally had problems with furring/deposits, etc. compared to surrounding areas. But I'll try contacting them direct, asap, to see if they can shed any light on this discrepancy. In the meantime, maybe I'll work off values based on averaging out the two sets of figures.
Okay, now that that's clarified, when I mentioned the paired Rainbowfish earlier, that was based on the min stocking levels and tank size requirements given in the TF Fish Profiles section and use of the Community Creator, so boy am I pleased to have access to the personal knowledge available through this Forum.
So, apologies everyone for giving the misleading figures before and Thanks Littlefish and Sue for the new
links.