WATER HELP

[Brenda]

We are moving into our new house and I need some advice asap, I don't know which way to go here. The new home is hooked up to a water softener, we can bypass it with some slight modifications, we are also on well water. I brought some of my fish over last night and I brought there water with them. I don't know if I should use the softener water? the well water directly? The well or a bypass is all cold water and will take a long time to heat up. I have only tested the waters ph at this point and both well and softener are about 7.2ish. all my fish are in temporary 10 -30 gallon tanks until I get the big tanks filled, but I don't know what to do, I'm in  serious stress mode here.

Edited August 5, 2021 by Brenda

[Colu]

If the pH is roughly the same I wouldn't worry to much about the water softener I would just add some crushed coral to help buffer your water you could get a large tote or bin put your water in that and  add a heater to get the temp you want before water changes

[lefty o]

i wouldnt stress over the water softener. as long as the water parameters are not massively different the fish wont care. if it still stresses you out, pretty much every water softener made in the last 50 years has a bypass valve on the head.

[Brenda]

I thought that the softener water (salty water) would be harmful to them. 

[Biotope Biologist]

Depends on the water softener they use. It seems often times they use some sort of sodium salt

I've been reading alot about what they use in the well water as I'm preparing to make a video on why different locales have different water

Edited August 5, 2021 by Biotope Biologist

[lefty o]

On 8/5/2021 at 1:53 PM, Brenda said:

I thought that the softener water (salty water) would be harmful to them. 

water softeners only actually transfer trace amounts of salt into the water.. the salt is used to flush the resin tank.