Hi,
I have a question which "salt-minerals" work best to recreate RO
water for breeding ???????????????
Thank you
Chris
RO and MINERALS
RO and MINERALS
17 years with discus and learning new tricks every day.
L-46 is my new challenge
L-46 is my new challenge
In the US, nitrate levels are one of the things they monitor for in drinking water. RO doesn't necessarily remove nitrate anyway, only the DI portion is doing the majority of that.
With that said, I've seen more people kill fish in general, and zebras in particular, crashing the pH using RO water, and it's honestly just not necessary, or even really beneficial for these guys. If your water is VERY hard (like over 1500 tds) then you could mix it half and half with RO and still be able to stimulate them to spawn. I just think people make way too much of a priority providing conditions the fish themselves don't require to thrive.
Barbie
With that said, I've seen more people kill fish in general, and zebras in particular, crashing the pH using RO water, and it's honestly just not necessary, or even really beneficial for these guys. If your water is VERY hard (like over 1500 tds) then you could mix it half and half with RO and still be able to stimulate them to spawn. I just think people make way too much of a priority providing conditions the fish themselves don't require to thrive.
Barbie
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RO
Barbie,
I agree, Using RO will take a lot of the water.
While in nature there is lot of mix miniral in the water. Our fish do need this miniral.
Nitra is not in tap water. It's not haveing enough Bacateria in your filter
Good filtration, I personally have more bio filter that is recomended.
Not forgetting the mechanical filtration as well, it dose hold good bacteria.
Try adding more filter media that hold the good bacteria.
I agree, Using RO will take a lot of the water.
While in nature there is lot of mix miniral in the water. Our fish do need this miniral.
Nitra is not in tap water. It's not haveing enough Bacateria in your filter
Good filtration, I personally have more bio filter that is recomended.
Not forgetting the mechanical filtration as well, it dose hold good bacteria.
Try adding more filter media that hold the good bacteria.
Re: RO
Some people do indeed have nitrAte in their tap water. Even with a well established tank people can have issues with nitrAte (usually to over feeding or something) but there are good plants such as wysteria which suck it all right up.chillired wrote:Barbie,
I agree, Using RO will take a lot of the water.
While in nature there is lot of mix miniral in the water. Our fish do need this miniral.
Nitra is not in tap water. It's not haveing enough Bacateria in your filter
Good filtration, I personally have more bio filter that is recomended.
Not forgetting the mechanical filtration as well, it dose hold good bacteria.
Try adding more filter media that hold the good bacteria.