Quote Originally Posted by Mrs.WeedChick
I use wally spring water and it seems to work much better than my tap water but i was thinking of buying water softner from the pet shop and seeing if I could go back to tap. Oh and I think paper ph strips suck! I need to find something else.
Yeah, I bought some of those strips and might as well have flushed my money down the toilet. If you can't afford an electronic meter get a drop tester. They work well. As for your water, leave it out for 12 hours with an airstone in it before doing anything to it. This will allow time for a lot of the bad stuff to evaporate.