| Tetra Water Test Kits enable you to monitor your pond's water. Pond water quality may cause fish to behave unnaturally, stunt growth, display poor coloration, and make them more susceptible to disease.
Plants may fail to grow or become discolored. Tetra Pond Test Kits allow the pond keeper to easily and accurately detect and correct water quality problems before they adversely affect your fish or plants.
Alkalinity or Carbonate Hardness (KH) is a measure of the buffering capacity of water, or its ability to resist change in pH. Where alkalinity is allowed to drop too long or too low can often suffer a situation where the pH then “crashes” to levels below 5.0 - leading to very inefficient or total loss of biological filtration and direct irritation or stress on some fish species.
Although commercial chemical buffers are available, natural water relies primarily on a carbonate-bicarbonate buffer system, hence the name hobby use of “carbonate hardness”. Favorable levels of carbonate hardness are between 3° and 10° dH. |
