take your tap water to the fish store and ask them to test it. maybe your kit is
old. Ingrid

"rob" wrote:

I was pretty sure salt would not affect pH ..... just didn't know what did.

The tap water I used for the pond has a reading of 8.6 maybe 8.8 since I am
extrapolating. I do not know the hardness of the tap water. I'll use some
of the kitty litter from the pond and let it sit in the tap water and see
what happens.


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