Ph Results In Cycling Tank

The low range test only goes up to 7.6. Anything higher than that still shows the 7.6 colour. Your true pH is shown by the higher range test at 8.2. You have alkaline water.

You also need to know your hardness as that is more important than pH when it comes to choosing fish. You should be able to find that information somewhere on your water supplier's website. There are several units they might use (a bit like feet & inches or metres for length) so you need to tell us which unit they use as well as the number.

Once we know your hardness we'll be able to suggest fish that will like your water.

It does make sense. There are five units in total!

In fish keeping, only two units are used - german degrees, sometimes written as dH, and ppm (also called mg/l CaCO₃). These are the units you will see in fish profiles.

Your german deg are 10.91, so call it 11. In ppm, that's 194.8 so call that 195ppm. Those numbers fall into the top end of moderately hard (using the scale from my water company)

In summary your water has:
pH 8.2
Hardness 11 german deg (dH)/195ppm; moderately hard.
These are the figures to use when looking at fish profiles.

One other thing to check - that pH of 8.2; was that freshly run tap water, tap water that has stood 24 hours or tank water? If it was freshly run tap water, can I suggest you leave a glass of water to stand overnight then test it. It will probably be different from freshly run, and is a more accurate pH. And your tank water has had some weird chemistry going on during cycling.

As for fish, you need to avoid those that must have soft acid water, and those which must have harder water than you have, though the latter only really applies to Rift Lake cichlids. The easiest way to proceed is to look in a few local shops and see what's available in your area and what you like. Write down the names, including the latin name if they give it. The come home and look on seriously fish. They give the water requirements and tank size of a lot more fish than in the fish profiles on here. Sometimes they give the hardness in ppm, sometimes in dH or ^oH, which is why I converted your hardness.

The way to change your hardness, and pH to some extent, is to mix your tap water with RO (reverse osmosis) water. That is water that has had all its minerals removed. But you would have to make sure to use exactly the same ratio of tap:RO at every water change. If you decide on this route, now is the time to do it. When you do your big water change at the end of the cycle, refill at your chosen ratio.
The way to decide on the ratio is to get some RO water and a GH tester. Then experiment, mixing the two waters in a bucket, till you find out how much of each gives you the hardness you want.