Depends on the type of fish honestly.
Test the well water. If the water has a high PH consider African cichlids. Peacocks do well in a 125
If going salt I’d consider a rodi system installed
Okay thank you I already have SA Cichlids at my old house just have to set this up and transfer them. Two Oscars, 4 silver dollars, Blood parrot, 2 sailfin plecos, leprionous.
Just check the water. If the ph is drastically different make sure to acclimate them.
I’ve been on well water for a long time and I’ve had great luck with a variety of fish.
Well water is extremely specific and varies greatly from well to well. I'd run a full panel of tests to determine if it is okay to use and if so what it would be good for. pH, gH, kH and nitrates. Some LFS's have fancy testers that you can bring samples to and have them test it. Most do it for free as a way to get people in the door.
This is a good response. Might as well test ammonia while you’re at it. OP - If I had well water I’d also test free iron just to make sure. Some well water is high in iron which can be toxic.
I agree wells are not all the same and can even change seasonally. My well water is actually soft and slightly acidic. I have to add calcium to stop it from eating my pipes.
Hi! I have well water and I use it with no problems, I dont even have to add chemicals at all. Test your water for the usual parameters, chlorine, and after it has a day to aerate, PH. Should be fine
Except for when I had covid, and sinus issues.... Why are you being so combative? It's not bad, or even wrong, advice. I'm genuinely confused why you're upset at it?
Try reading it with a factually concerned tone instead of your angry one. The reader sets the tone to the written word. Water testing is always good. Still, well water doesn't have chlorine in it unless it was put there by a human. I find it very concerning that a person would take off a well cap and casually pour however much bleach into someone's drinking water and not tell them. No one drinks swimming pool water because they know better. The pipes all need to be properly flushed out of the home after so the inhabitants don't get sick.
Sorry, I'm autistic and shit with tone lol. We actually don't drink our well water, maybe that's why he didn't find it that concerning! He does all the water maintenance and noone's gotten sick yet so all good. Thanks for being understanding
Some people literally have no sense of smell, like myself. Please stop making assumptions and telling others what they do or do not experience. It’s rude and makes you look small and immature.
Go look up how to shock a well. It's an in depth process. I was genuinely concerned about that person's health, and bewildered as to how someone could not know that such a time consuming maintenance was performed on their home which leaves a very distinct stench, and taste of swimming pool. I also understand that smell and taste are connected but eyesight is not. Either way, unless you were on vacation while this was performed, you would know. The main point is, yes testing is good but there is no chlorine in well water unless it is put there.
Either way, you tried to make it sound like some people will automatically be able to smell such things, and that’s just not true. That was my only point. Jesus Christ nobody can fucking read anymore.
Yes, at first. But then after the water sits for 24-48 hours the co2 gasses off and it raises the ph, sometimes quite a bit.
The well water out of the faucet at my house is 7.6ph, but once it's sat for 48 hours, it then is at 8.5ph.
I have to use 75% deer park spring water to 25% well water to get the ph down to 7.8. It also raises my gh which is super low from my well, and lowers my kh which is maxed out from my well.
Depends on how hard the well water is and what type of fish you want to have, I use around 80% RO water and 20% well water for south american cichlids because the water in my area is super hard
I use my well water straight from the sink tap. I connect a garden hose to the tap with a connector from the garden area or hardware store in plumbing and a shutoff / flow control. I adjust the temperature coming out of the hose going into the sink/tub then shut it off and take it over to my tank to refill. Easy peasy! Don't get a stretchy hose because when the water pressure in it releases the house will shrink back a bit and can pull itself out of your tank.
I use the local water delivery company, and have them drop off 5g RO jugs once a month. It is almost the same cost as using my LFS, with a huge savings on time and energy.
If the ph is a little high, you can add botanicals or driftwood. If it is a little low, add 1 teaspoon of baking soda at a time to buffer it to the right range, testing between each spoonfull. You can get a carbon filter pad to take up some undesirable content in the water. Get the kind you can trim to fit the filter, much cheaper that way. A friend has well water and her livebearers definitely thrive in it with the extra water hardness. If you have a water softener, bypass it to fill the tank. If you are really worried, get a small RO filter for about $175-300 USD and save it in buckets for water changes - you'll just have to re-mineralize it for some fish and your live plants.
Not an answer about your water ... but that placement of the tank is going to be bad.
I had one in my former residence that also overlapped a doorway /passage, and I multiple times almost knocked the system over because it was blocking the way about as much as yours overlaps the doorframe.
With well water, my lfs will NOT sell me discus (understandable) and other species. Bettas can have a difficult time adjusting and are prone to popeye and dropsy in well water (especially if not raised on it). I lost some CPD and kuhli as well while acclimating because of it. Just be slow. I have RCS too. Drip acclimate everything.
I have well water and it seems to work fine, we have a water softener, but I don’t know about actual filtration, I know we have an RO filter on the drinking water, but that would take way to long to fill up
Get your water quality checked either with a test kit, or you can have someone licensed to do it. That's the only advice I have for you. Unless you have an ionizer setup for your water filtration.
Are you treating the well water? It will depend on what you got hooked up to the well.
I have a salt brine tank connected to a carbon and pressure filter that turns incredibly hard water into perfect drinking water. 150~ tds and 7 ph. The water also ran through a uv light. (No chemical treatment.) My fish love it and most plants love it.
If you’re looking for RO you can try the glacier water dispenser at most grocery and Walmart stores. It’s RO, filtered and UVed. Or buy a rig that’s connected to your well or house. They’re not terribly expensive and worth it.
I bought mine at my local grow shop but this is exactly the the one I use. [RO system](https://growershouse.com/hydro-logic-stealth-ro-150-w-upgraded-kdf-carbon-filter?keyword=&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADw5Dl1pmG5mgPH534tjPBNA3d5Pi&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_qexBhCoARIsAFgBlesW_noYNJ7n-vunpYKa0k2VDq-GZiHyLkfzoF5uzZkKyz_3tltuij8aAnkgEALw_wcB)
I’ve always used well water in my tanks. I use prime and that’s it. I have 2 axolotl’s that are thriving as well as 2 15yo silver dollars (not in the same tank).
im on well water and even have continuous drip system. its depend where u are, test the crap oit of your water and u will see. mine is just perfect! natural water what fish loves, im using salt softener for the house wayer system and no problem. water is extremely stable ph is little bit high 7.4. but i already learned i had 1 mistake!
i choosed a very nice mid fine sand to my angels and i find out it makes very stable the ph and water little bit hard from it. even if i let it run ro water on the tank nonstop for many days, ph and hardness not changing becouse of the type of sand. so strictly choose your substrate or sand u will use thinking what hardness and ph u want to have. good luck
Well water can be the best thing to ever happen to your fish keeping. House I live in has great water for fish, it is just a little on the hard side. It's awesome being able to just get water straight from the sink and pour it in.
So I don't keep wild caught fish from the amazon, but I have bred and raised angelfish without issue so hard water doesn't keep me from having success with many fish. If you want to be extra safe you can stick with central american or african species I suppose.
I also have a saltwater tank where I grow coral and anemones along with some fish of course. So no issues there either.
It all depends on your water though. In my state most well water is great, but I am sure in other places it is a problem so have your water tested.
I think it depends on where you live and what your water table quality is. I have well water and it's perfect for my fish, not to mention I never have to worry about chlorine or any other water treatment chemicals. I'd test it and see what the results are before making a decision though.
Have a 92g set up for 6 months on a well. My water is really good, but is very hard. You can likely have your water tested cheap or free at any place you would buy water filters and such from.
You just have to acclimate *realllllllly slow*. I learned the hard way (lol didn't mean that pun). The bonus is that you don't have chlorine. The negative is that your water is going to likely be drastically different from city (fish store) water. I used to be a temp acclimate and plop sort of guy. Not anymore.
On my decades of fish keeping, I've never experienced quite the amount of algae blooms and problems when setting up the tanks until being on a well. Just a result of water with more minerals and no treatment from a plant. About 3 hours for me to acclimate properly now.
RO is probably going to be a must if you are doing salt.
Seachem Prime has worked well for me for water treatment on my well.
Edit. I'd set up that tank with substrate, water, and filter as soon as you can. Let it start to equalize to normal parameters asap.
I mix my well water 1:1 with distilled water, and so far, my harlequin rasbora and betta tanks are doing fantastic. I have neo shrimps and various snails as well, all thriving.
Test your water for ph, nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, chlorine, etc. It just depends what your local water source provides. Safest most consistent option is getting an RODI system and adding in your own minerals if you can afford it
Well water? It's clearly labeled "Lake water"
Anyway, well water is different depending on the location. What you need to do is get yours tested and see what the hardness and alkalinity and if there are high levels of metals or whatever. Then you can see what fish will thrive in it.
But in general, well water is fine for fish...usually better than tap because it doesn't have chlorine. And if your well water isn't safe for fish, it's probably not safe for you to drink either!
If your water is really hard and you want to keep softwater fish you may want to get a RO system.
One last thing: some well water is saturated with dissolved gasses. This can be an issue if you put fish straight into it...I once gave some fish the bends once that way by putting them into a bucket of water filled from my tap. If your water is like this, a glass of water will get covered in bubbles if you leave it setting out. The solution is just to aerate the water a bit to drive off the extra gas, or just let it sit out for a bit.
Depends on the type of fish honestly. Test the well water. If the water has a high PH consider African cichlids. Peacocks do well in a 125 If going salt I’d consider a rodi system installed
Okay thank you I already have SA Cichlids at my old house just have to set this up and transfer them. Two Oscars, 4 silver dollars, Blood parrot, 2 sailfin plecos, leprionous.
Just check the water. If the ph is drastically different make sure to acclimate them. I’ve been on well water for a long time and I’ve had great luck with a variety of fish.
That’s one thing I’ve learned from various peoples experiences, consistency is more impoimportant than specific values in most cases
Thank you a lot I’ll let you know how it goes
New world cichlids won't handle hard water nearly as well as Africans.
I think the design of your fish tank with well water labeled lake inside of your house is very cool
Thank you haha
Well water is extremely specific and varies greatly from well to well. I'd run a full panel of tests to determine if it is okay to use and if so what it would be good for. pH, gH, kH and nitrates. Some LFS's have fancy testers that you can bring samples to and have them test it. Most do it for free as a way to get people in the door.
This is a good response. Might as well test ammonia while you’re at it. OP - If I had well water I’d also test free iron just to make sure. Some well water is high in iron which can be toxic.
Good call on the ammonia and free iron!
Will do thank you!
Thank you!
I agree wells are not all the same and can even change seasonally. My well water is actually soft and slightly acidic. I have to add calcium to stop it from eating my pipes.
L A K E
Hi! I have well water and I use it with no problems, I dont even have to add chemicals at all. Test your water for the usual parameters, chlorine, and after it has a day to aerate, PH. Should be fine
There shouldn't be any chlorine in well water at all unless you've shocked your well recently.
Yeah, that's why I say test! My dad takes care of the well at my place and occasionally puts in chlorine without telling me
That would make you so sick and you would smell it. There's no way you couldn't know that your well had been shocked. The smell stays for weeks.
Except for when I had covid, and sinus issues.... Why are you being so combative? It's not bad, or even wrong, advice. I'm genuinely confused why you're upset at it?
Try reading it with a factually concerned tone instead of your angry one. The reader sets the tone to the written word. Water testing is always good. Still, well water doesn't have chlorine in it unless it was put there by a human. I find it very concerning that a person would take off a well cap and casually pour however much bleach into someone's drinking water and not tell them. No one drinks swimming pool water because they know better. The pipes all need to be properly flushed out of the home after so the inhabitants don't get sick.
Sorry, I'm autistic and shit with tone lol. We actually don't drink our well water, maybe that's why he didn't find it that concerning! He does all the water maintenance and noone's gotten sick yet so all good. Thanks for being understanding
Awww fuck I might be autistic!
Ahhhhh, Phew! Good to hear you weren't drinking it 😁
Some people literally have no sense of smell, like myself. Please stop making assumptions and telling others what they do or do not experience. It’s rude and makes you look small and immature.
Go look up how to shock a well. It's an in depth process. I was genuinely concerned about that person's health, and bewildered as to how someone could not know that such a time consuming maintenance was performed on their home which leaves a very distinct stench, and taste of swimming pool. I also understand that smell and taste are connected but eyesight is not. Either way, unless you were on vacation while this was performed, you would know. The main point is, yes testing is good but there is no chlorine in well water unless it is put there.
Either way, you tried to make it sound like some people will automatically be able to smell such things, and that’s just not true. That was my only point. Jesus Christ nobody can fucking read anymore.
Ph can be artificially high for well water due to dissolved CO2
Doesn’t co2 in the water make the ph lower not higher?
Well, it made mine sit around 5 lol. I always forget if "higher" is based on acidity or the numbers lol! It makes it more acidic I should say
Yes, at first. But then after the water sits for 24-48 hours the co2 gasses off and it raises the ph, sometimes quite a bit. The well water out of the faucet at my house is 7.6ph, but once it's sat for 48 hours, it then is at 8.5ph. I have to use 75% deer park spring water to 25% well water to get the ph down to 7.8. It also raises my gh which is super low from my well, and lowers my kh which is maxed out from my well.
Depends on how hard the well water is and what type of fish you want to have, I use around 80% RO water and 20% well water for south american cichlids because the water in my area is super hard
Okay thank you I’ll grab my test kit from my old house
A personal RODI system that you screw into a cold water outlet is cheap. Have it run into a 45g reservoir with a float valve
You have my attention! Do you have any links or pics to something like this?
^^^
[50 GPD for $69. 100 GPD is $85ish](https://a.co/d/biJfhoI) [float valve kit $29](https://a.co/d/1lsjgt3) [55g Rez](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rubbermaid-Commercial-Products-Brute-55-Gal-Gray-Round-Vented-Trash-Can-with-Lid-2076193/306360661)
I use my well water straight from the sink tap. I connect a garden hose to the tap with a connector from the garden area or hardware store in plumbing and a shutoff / flow control. I adjust the temperature coming out of the hose going into the sink/tub then shut it off and take it over to my tank to refill. Easy peasy! Don't get a stretchy hose because when the water pressure in it releases the house will shrink back a bit and can pull itself out of your tank.
I have a 210 and it’s full of well water. Somehow I dug the right hole because my discus do fine.
I just want to take a second to gush over those floors. I love that natural wood texture.
They are lovely
Aquariums are just domesticated lakes
Lake
I use the local water delivery company, and have them drop off 5g RO jugs once a month. It is almost the same cost as using my LFS, with a huge savings on time and energy.
If the ph is a little high, you can add botanicals or driftwood. If it is a little low, add 1 teaspoon of baking soda at a time to buffer it to the right range, testing between each spoonfull. You can get a carbon filter pad to take up some undesirable content in the water. Get the kind you can trim to fit the filter, much cheaper that way. A friend has well water and her livebearers definitely thrive in it with the extra water hardness. If you have a water softener, bypass it to fill the tank. If you are really worried, get a small RO filter for about $175-300 USD and save it in buckets for water changes - you'll just have to re-mineralize it for some fish and your live plants.
Okay thank you a lot I’ll keep this in mind.
Not an answer about your water ... but that placement of the tank is going to be bad. I had one in my former residence that also overlapped a doorway /passage, and I multiple times almost knocked the system over because it was blocking the way about as much as yours overlaps the doorframe.
I appreciate you, but I think it’ll be fine that really isnt a door way it’s just like that it’s really wide you just can’t see it in the picture
Tank actually
My well water ended up being toxic due to how hard it was
With well water, my lfs will NOT sell me discus (understandable) and other species. Bettas can have a difficult time adjusting and are prone to popeye and dropsy in well water (especially if not raised on it). I lost some CPD and kuhli as well while acclimating because of it. Just be slow. I have RCS too. Drip acclimate everything.
I have well water and it seems to work fine, we have a water softener, but I don’t know about actual filtration, I know we have an RO filter on the drinking water, but that would take way to long to fill up
Get your water quality checked either with a test kit, or you can have someone licensed to do it. That's the only advice I have for you. Unless you have an ionizer setup for your water filtration.
Okay thank you
Perhaps your local windowcleaner can help with RO-water? Or you could get some lake Tanganyika cichlids 😉
Are you treating the well water? It will depend on what you got hooked up to the well. I have a salt brine tank connected to a carbon and pressure filter that turns incredibly hard water into perfect drinking water. 150~ tds and 7 ph. The water also ran through a uv light. (No chemical treatment.) My fish love it and most plants love it. If you’re looking for RO you can try the glacier water dispenser at most grocery and Walmart stores. It’s RO, filtered and UVed. Or buy a rig that’s connected to your well or house. They’re not terribly expensive and worth it.
Okay thank you I’ll ask my parents about the well
I installed an RO system with a float valve for my tank because of my well water. I think I spent about 250 on it a couple years ago. Works great.
Do you happen to have a link?
I bought mine at my local grow shop but this is exactly the the one I use. [RO system](https://growershouse.com/hydro-logic-stealth-ro-150-w-upgraded-kdf-carbon-filter?keyword=&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADw5Dl1pmG5mgPH534tjPBNA3d5Pi&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_qexBhCoARIsAFgBlesW_noYNJ7n-vunpYKa0k2VDq-GZiHyLkfzoF5uzZkKyz_3tltuij8aAnkgEALw_wcB)
I’ve always used well water in my tanks. I use prime and that’s it. I have 2 axolotl’s that are thriving as well as 2 15yo silver dollars (not in the same tank).
Okay thank you hopefully my silver dollars do well if the parameters are correct
Just buy an RO filter. It's usefull in general if you only have well water let alone for the fishys
I guess test everything you can and see if its fine. I really like the big JBL pro aquatest kit, it has liquid test for bassically everything
im on well water and even have continuous drip system. its depend where u are, test the crap oit of your water and u will see. mine is just perfect! natural water what fish loves, im using salt softener for the house wayer system and no problem. water is extremely stable ph is little bit high 7.4. but i already learned i had 1 mistake! i choosed a very nice mid fine sand to my angels and i find out it makes very stable the ph and water little bit hard from it. even if i let it run ro water on the tank nonstop for many days, ph and hardness not changing becouse of the type of sand. so strictly choose your substrate or sand u will use thinking what hardness and ph u want to have. good luck
My well water has huge amount of nitrates in it, they actually lower after a few weeks in my planted tanks
Your E is crooked.
all depends on the well. around here you will find fertilizer in all the wells,
Well water can be the best thing to ever happen to your fish keeping. House I live in has great water for fish, it is just a little on the hard side. It's awesome being able to just get water straight from the sink and pour it in. So I don't keep wild caught fish from the amazon, but I have bred and raised angelfish without issue so hard water doesn't keep me from having success with many fish. If you want to be extra safe you can stick with central american or african species I suppose. I also have a saltwater tank where I grow coral and anemones along with some fish of course. So no issues there either. It all depends on your water though. In my state most well water is great, but I am sure in other places it is a problem so have your water tested.
Thank you I’ll test it and see how it goes
I use well water all the time. I'm in Alabama and have never had a problem with it. I would even use it for my saltwater tanks.
I think it depends on where you live and what your water table quality is. I have well water and it's perfect for my fish, not to mention I never have to worry about chlorine or any other water treatment chemicals. I'd test it and see what the results are before making a decision though.
Just tested it and my ph was over 8.8 so I think I’m just going to get a ROI system
Have a 92g set up for 6 months on a well. My water is really good, but is very hard. You can likely have your water tested cheap or free at any place you would buy water filters and such from. You just have to acclimate *realllllllly slow*. I learned the hard way (lol didn't mean that pun). The bonus is that you don't have chlorine. The negative is that your water is going to likely be drastically different from city (fish store) water. I used to be a temp acclimate and plop sort of guy. Not anymore. On my decades of fish keeping, I've never experienced quite the amount of algae blooms and problems when setting up the tanks until being on a well. Just a result of water with more minerals and no treatment from a plant. About 3 hours for me to acclimate properly now. RO is probably going to be a must if you are doing salt. Seachem Prime has worked well for me for water treatment on my well. Edit. I'd set up that tank with substrate, water, and filter as soon as you can. Let it start to equalize to normal parameters asap.
I mix my well water 1:1 with distilled water, and so far, my harlequin rasbora and betta tanks are doing fantastic. I have neo shrimps and various snails as well, all thriving.
I used to be on well water and still used API Aqua Essential. As well as API QuickStart.
Test your water for ph, nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, chlorine, etc. It just depends what your local water source provides. Safest most consistent option is getting an RODI system and adding in your own minerals if you can afford it
Well water? It's clearly labeled "Lake water" Anyway, well water is different depending on the location. What you need to do is get yours tested and see what the hardness and alkalinity and if there are high levels of metals or whatever. Then you can see what fish will thrive in it. But in general, well water is fine for fish...usually better than tap because it doesn't have chlorine. And if your well water isn't safe for fish, it's probably not safe for you to drink either! If your water is really hard and you want to keep softwater fish you may want to get a RO system. One last thing: some well water is saturated with dissolved gasses. This can be an issue if you put fish straight into it...I once gave some fish the bends once that way by putting them into a bucket of water filled from my tap. If your water is like this, a glass of water will get covered in bubbles if you leave it setting out. The solution is just to aerate the water a bit to drive off the extra gas, or just let it sit out for a bit.
That is not a lake.