Low pH and Soft Water Aquarium Stocking Ideas: These Are Some COOL Fish!! 

Want more information on some of the fish featured in this video? Check out these species profiles! Discus: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SR_09RUYq_o.html Geophagus altifrons: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m4VcfJd2Y9Y.html Geophagus tapajos: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5SwK9fg-dJM.html Angelfish: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8WXFfoVs_CQ.html Apistogramma mendezi: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--nsOwfveCQ0.html Bolivian Rams: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yh66CXYsEH0.html Panda Cory Cats: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gOJVvW2X96U.html If you want to see more of the fishrooms featured in this video check these out! Apet Tour: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pfwUmUpspbM.html Freshwater Exotics Fish Room: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zZ8YD6RaIQU.html Aquatic Clarity Fish Room: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DVBqzWsJWYk.html Flip Aquatics Fish Room: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ijAmj1lvfw0.html Prime Time Aquatics Fish Room Part 1: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q9UYq6S6wPQ.html Part 2: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FmRfSBiuvJc.html Our new shirts can be found at: www.primetimeaquatics.com/merch For the latest in the fish room check us out on Instagram primetime_aquatics For more cool behind the scenes stuff consider becoming a member! ru-vid.com/show-UCYVN7EN0ALL6CE4U7NpMUTAjoin If you want to see all the cool stuff Joanna does with other types of scapes check out her channel! ru-vid.com/show-UCPEZk1MpOTGiBVh6BtWjlRg

I have high pH and rock hard water…but here I am. I just have to watch. Love y’all!!

Rams have been my favorite small cichlid for a long time now. I did find out the hard way that my Bolivians and German Blues definitely have differing water requirements. They are a fantastic, fish, though. So much personality and attitude in a small package!

Part 2? Yes please! With crushed coral everywhere (filter, substrate, and mesh bag) highest I've got is 6.8. I'm in Charleston SC. Water is super soft as well. This video helps out the south east big time! Thanks guys! Shout out to Small Scape, thanks girl! I watched a lot of aquqscape how to videos and yours, for me at least, were the most helpful. I appreciate what ya'll are doing for the fish community!

Great list and great video! I would love to see a part 2, keep up all the great work. I love your channels.

Happy soft water Monday. Excellent the perfect video for my water parameters and so many cool fish 🤩

This is so helpful, thank you-

Very helpful video, thanks. 🤗💞

Thanks for all the information =) I started my aquarium hobby with you two and have recently branched into doing house calls for my friend's aquariums. Thanks for being a great channel for solutions, and from a guy obsessed with guppies: thanks for all the information on rams and cichlids!

Great video idea!

Awesome video! I love Apistogramma 🙂

Super list. You guys come up with the most comprehensive lists and the best info on water parameters for the fish and plants. Looking forward to hearing all about Aquashella. 👍❤👍

I always like your choices.

insightful, you got my attention bro

Great choices! I kept a GBR for a little over a year before he passed awesome personality. I now have a male Apisto Borellii who is not a fan of the camera and skittish. My male GBR used to purposely swim in front of the camera when taking pictures of my plants. I set up a new 29g a couple months ago and plan on getting another one

You guys rock thank you for sharing. I am putting together my first planted tank. I wanted to buy fish and shrimp that are happy 😊, with the water parameters in my home, instead of trying to change those parameters. There are natural ways to change those parameters but it is much easier to get fish that would be happy with your natural water parameters. My pH is a 6.0 with soft water. This information has been so helpful. You rock 🤘. Thank you for sharing 😎 ✌️

cool stocking ideas

Part 2 would be sweet!

Tefe Greens will always be my top softwater fish. Bumblebee pattern with red polka dots, and blue outlines is so pretty. I like keeping them with altum angels, and German rams.

Love from Chennai India

Happy Monday 😄

This is the video I have needed. I have low ph (low 6) and low gh and kh. Just got a 105 gallon acrylic and I want to get rams

Great Video! I made the mistake of running my tank water through a sink-mounted “zero-water” brand filter. It completely filtered out particles and almost all chlorine and chloramine. (Still used prime just in case.) I originally thought this was a great idea, until I tried growing a bacterial colony in there. After 4 weeks I was seeing some nitrates but my ammonia never went below 1 ppm except for within 1 day of doing a water change! Turns out most of the big-brand bacterias need a minimum hardness in order to grow! My tank’s pH would also fluctuate wildly depending on the day. I’ve since been slowly transitioning to regular tap water (with conditioner), but hardness’s effect on the cycle is something I never knew about.

Good Morning.

Perfect video for my area - ph 6.8 water hardness - very soft.

move house and i went from a pH of 8.2 to a pH of 6.0. this video sure came in handy :)

I just subscribed buddy

I like this lady talking about fish. I wonder if she does her own fish talks?😃🐠

I'm setting up a 40g breeder and going to try to get the hardness & pH lower for my Ivanacara adoketa. I'm hoping to breed them soon. They are almost to mature adult size. I have been growing out my Ivanacara adoketa in northern Indiana water. 8.0 - 8.2 pH & pretty hard water. I doubt they will breed, but I'm planning to set up an RO system soon. All time favorite for cories are C. duplicareus & C. melini.

How about a video on your favourite cheaper fish and your favourite expensive fish?! I know it depends where you live but would make an interesting video :)

I have been binging your channel and you have inspired expanding my hobby! I’m planning a 75 gallon with a tapajos as my center fish. Will my guppies be to small to add in as they are out breeding their current tank? Thanks! ❤️ watching you guys!

Awesome fish. I wish I could keep discus. My tap water is high like yours. I tried for years using Seachem ph buffers but it was hard to get to to 7ph. 6ph would be impossible to maintain without RO water. 2 years ago I started keeping African cichlids. They love my water!

For some fish I wish I had this problem. Leopard frog pleco and Orange laser Cory cats are two that take softer water then my well has. But I am grateful that I don’t have city water and have to deal with those problems.

The last live stream you guys talked about fish that move their eyes. My Chinese Golden Alge Eater moves it's eyes round and round

The Discus bug is lurking on my horizon as well. I have an empty 125 that may go native, may go Discus. It's going to be just plants for awhile.

Try Chocolate Gourami. Need them in groups. They get up to a 2 to 3 inches. They need to be kept very peaceful fish. When they get dark brown their color is great '

i have 1 german blue ram with a 7.5 ph and he lives in a tank next to a mbuna tank with 8.5 ph. our water is very eay to change i just use crush coral in the hob filter for the mbunas. when i got the german blue ram i expected it to not do well cause all the videos i watched said they arent hardy. i can do a 50% water change with him and he isnt bothered nd hes always swimming and interacting with me. he probably comes from genetically good parents. i love him so mcuh

Thanks- my water is 6.8 and I wanted a betta and platies but that’s too low for platies. Looking for a replacement tank mate for my betta.

Hmmm glad to see angels on here. I’ve had a time with pH consistently being 6. We’ve lost several fish but 3 angels are thriving in a 36 gallon. No ammonia, nitrites, or nitrates. Not sure why it’s not any higher. I have a 55 gallon, same tap water. PH consistently 7.6-7.8. Cycled now so high nitrates. No fish in here yet.

Native fish do well in lower pH. Save on heater cost too!

Have you talked about Celestial Pearl Danio's and have a video?

I love my GBR’s. I call them my little Gremlins.

Do a video on setting up a air system. Pump pvc size extra please

Have you thought about German bred discus fish? They have been bred in harder water. I hear a lot of the Asian bred ones are bred in harder water. I'd love to get some, but I don't have room for a larger tank or the money to afford the fish. Lol!

🥰Geophagus, lovely! Why didn’t you mention kili fish and Parosphromenus? Yes, absolutely no fishes for beginners (ph 4.5-6.5; kH0-3) as they are harder to keep (peat!). But these guys are gorgeous and many of them are on the brink of extinction (destruction of environment). Luckily my tap water has kH of 5. but I still add some rain water (kh0), if not possible use a peat canone. Restriction: living on the more rural side for clean rain and no copper.

For the algorithm!

I notice the advice tends to be for 'low PH/soft water' OR 'high PH/hard water'....but I somehow have a tank that is very "hard" (GH), yet also low PH (ranging in the 6.3-6.6 range usually). Are the plants and fish that like soft-hard water? High mineral content but mildly acidic?

Can i run 10 gallon to 75 gallon only sponge filter without any issue

would you guys please do a video on fish that can live in an unheated tank , in the winter I let my house get to 60 degrees in the summer I try to keep at 68 or so . I keep several species in. 110 gallon tubs with no heaters the water usually stays above 64 even in the winter and in summer it gets into the mid 70s , there's a skylight above the tubs. so right now I have guppies , platy's , zebra danios , rosy barbs and some feeder goldfish {6 inches now } I bought to raise and keep them from being eaten. but I don't know what other fish I can keep like this. oh I also keep a few different native fish from here in Texas. anyway HAPPY MONDAY everybody !

I cam only imagine the lengths I would have to go through to keep some of these fish, I live right on the Niagara Escarpment (geology people will know) and maybe Jason lol, look up the Niagara Escarpment and you'll understand my water

Can i keep Ram with these water parameters? Tap Water is: PH of 7.0 1 KH 4 GH

I’m having trouble with keeping samurai Gouramis. Their care says keep at PH 4 to 5 . . I can’t keep a stable 4 to 5 ph. Tried everything. RO water and tannins . Looking up distilled water .

What about water with a lower pH and hard water? What is better, to raise the pH or lower the hardness? How do you keep it stable? Especially for the Borneo loach...

We have a 29 gallon tank with a gh of 4-5 and a ph of 8.0-8.2. What fish would be choices?

Question: Another Aquarist stated that having an aquarium below 6.5-6PH pushes the bacteria in the tank to change over from Nitrate/Nitrite cycling... to one that uses CO2 to break things down... and they were saying this was found in Tannin tanks that were acidic and etc.. is that true or common? What's the ecology like in these situations?

can you have one aquarium with a mix of apistogrammas ?

I can’t find 2 platys I’m pretty sure there dead in the filter but I keep checking and now I have small white creatures growing all over the glass

This question is a bit off topic, but are there any shrimp i can keep in the tank with my Bolivian Rams and Corys?

I want altum Ángels now

I have plenty of GH but struggle with KH/pH. I have even killed plants this way. I am getting better with this management but it was an expensive learning process. I had followed someone's advice to monitor TDS and not chase pH. That probably does work for some, not for me. Know thy water source.

You forgot the most beautiul fish of all, the betta!

Could I clarify what you mean regarding the checkerboard cichlid not being from South America and being from West Africa instead? I thought you were referring to different species I've never heard of, but you did specify them as Dicrossus sp., which as far as I'm aware, are entirely South American. Thank you!

A lot of the Rasboras prefer soft water.

My water is 6.8ph and very soft water is that okay? I want to put a red tail catfish and a arrowana in my tank

I live in Oregon, soft water, and i suspect low pH. Thanks, because this is never addressed.

I have 6.4 out of the tap

11:06 I'm sorry are you saying that higher ph constipates them ?

My watching this clip while my water is > 22 dGh and Ph 8.00...hmm interesting :P

I get the RO/DI units can be pricy, but please do not buy aquarium RO/DI look at a Hydroponic grade one they are cheaper and far better quality and the filters are cheaper(I say this after mistakenly buying an aquarium RO/DI for hydro use). the scale at which hydroponic equipment is sold is insane. If you have a hydro store in your area I highly recommend you check them out even is you are just after air/water pumps they will have the best prices for that kind of stuff.

Our water is at 0 GH and KH so I always laugh when I hear some of our neighbours spend money on water softeners for their homes

Mjaaa 6-7 not really THAT low.

put peat in your filter it will lower your ph

It's really messing with my mind that you both are sitting on the wrong sides of each other...