Calcium And Kh Levels Detrimental To Fish Health?

[spicyball]

Hi ppl...would like to ask whether calcium and kh levels affect the health of fishes??..is it a must to buy these test kits after the cycling process??

[FuEl]

No nid.

[Achilles Tang]

If calcium and KH are detrimental to fishes, they would be living on the land by now!

[FuEl]

If calcium and KH are detrimental to fishes, they would be living on the land by now!

Ya lor..one such fish that is living on land now is the Achilles Tang.

[pospeh]

Calcium and dKH test kits are not necessary if you are keeping fish only, or plan on keeping only soft corals.

[Achilles Tang]

Ya lor..one such fish that is living on land now is the Achilles Tang.

*SLAP*

[wedgee]

Hmmm although CA might not affect the fishies so much, i dont tink we shld let them live in water dats dKH 4 and CA 200 etc right? Its like forcing a human to breathe in O4 instead of O2, oxygen?

At least do regular water changes (duration can be further apart unlike reef tanks) to help remove any unfiltered/unskimmed wastes and to smoothen out watever imbalances might have occured during the upkeep of the fish (i tink even live rocks would leech or suck elements!?)

Of cos, test kits would be rather unnecessary for CA and KH, but at least lets keep the PH at stable and natural levels...

AT, I dont believe its good to just shake off the value of KH and CA, even if they dont kill the fish outright...who knows, most of us who keep fishes only most surely venture slowly into coral-keeping!?

Just my thoughts, no offence...

[Achilles Tang]

Wedgee,

If its just for a FOWLR tank and you have no care for coralline algae growth.. then you can disregard KH and CA test kits as fishes do not need calcium and alk to survive. The levels provided by water changes should be enough.

If the fishkeeper wants to move into coral keeping, yes, test kits for CA and Alk would be essential should he want to keep more calcium-demanding corals or sensitive ones. IMO, if its just cheap & hardy mushrooms... the levels provided by water changes should be enough.

[wedgee]

Ya just wanted to remind them dat the use of water changes would be necessary if no regard were to be given for KH levels and such, cause the new guys might misunderstand us and take it as: 'let the water run its course without having to care abt the basic elements...'

[panlee]

This might help

http://www.aquariacentral.com/articles/calcium.shtml

[lima16_sg]

after reading Wedgee response, i thought "heng ya", $$ not wasted as had bought both kits as plan to just keep some hardy corals

but AT reply is faster than my mail...so back to square1

maybe do bi/monthly monitoring loh