Seachem Malawi/Victoria Buffer is designed to enhance the environment of cichlids by increasing carbonate hardness (KH), buffer capacity and pH. It buffers to a pH of 7.8 to 8.4 and will not affect general hardness (GH). For optimum replication of the Malawi/Victoria Lake environments use with Cichlid Lake Salt andNutridiet Cichlid Flakes. To obtain a higher pH than 8.4 use Tanganyika Buffer.