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Ok I may go 75 RO and 25 water. Have you noticed the difference in plant growth and health? Thanks :)

Hi Guys, Going to give RO a try in my next scape. I understand many folk cut there RO with tap water. My question is, if i am using EI method of fertilising do i need to cut at all? also, when doing the water change on the six day, i cant just be adding pure RO, so will i need to remove the 15...

You've blown my mind Darrel haha. I'll do some reading in that link and come back to decider this.

Any insight on this would be really appreciated.

Hello all, I have come into possession of one of these and was hoping someone could shed some light of its worth using. If it is then how The types of readings I am looking for. A quick play with it I have found My planted hi tech Daily dosed and after light out CF = 10 PPMx700 = 700 PPMx500...

Thanks guys :) Darrel that's makes more sense. Thanks for the breakdown. This leads me into my next question. If I have 1 litre of water, we will say that's 0.6g or salts....now I'm going to hazard a guess that it varies a fair amount but what exactly are the salts? Would I be right is...

Hi guys just wanted to understand this a little better If my tap water has a reading of 600ppm as far as I'm aware it has 600 parts per million, could someone explain this a little further. What are the 'parts' and a million is what ? Sorry if it's been gone over but I kept getting an error...

Thanks for the reply mark Tbh I need to get hold of a tds pen. Im going by what other local people have said about hard water really and the residue left on my glass as water evaporates That's the main reason for wanting to bring tds down in hope It will rid me of that problem and also to see...

Even at a very low concentration I would drip acclimatise the tank with the RO/Tap mix

Hi ppl I'm running my 30l high tech tank. I take every precaution to keep the tank looking good, with hiding equipment ect I just can't get on top of the crud left around the glass when te water evaporates. I'm thinking as its a private rented property I can't be messing with plumbing and...

Looking good mate, forget the test kits pleeeeease. Be careful with the DIY co2,no went a bit made with it and ended up with loads of crud from the mix in the water. There is a sticky for it in the co2 section witch is spot on, have a read you won't regret it :)

Hello mate Just use 4dk water, not tank water. I add my 4dk water to fill JUST over half.

Get an RO unit, the idea of using bottles water is pretty crazy.

What's wrong with water from the tap inside your house? My tap water is hard as hell, and I've no problem growing plants or keeping shrimp and apistogrammas? I don't think britta filters are good for tanks anyway, I can't provide evidence of this, just that's what I was told when I originally...

Point taken :)

So if I have a 100litre tank, I do 7 water changes over 7 days. 10 liters each time. Meaning I removed 70lites from my tank and replace it with 70litres, this isn't a 70% Water change? Mi no comprende?

Cheers for the advice guys. I went to pets at home and there plants where riddled with snails, so gave it a miss and decided to just keep a militant water change schedule. There's a few plants in there and I've being doing daily water changes of about 60-70% with treated and left out for...

Thanks for the advice everyone. I could go loco on the water changes of just leave it a week, there like the 1 2 Gro plants so I'm sure(hope) they'll be fine for a week, with a decent water change every other day or 3rd day. Unless I can find some zeolite, what are the drawbacks of using it...

Hello people I'm getting my delivery of ADA amazonia and power sand special S tomorrow along with some anubias cup plants. The filter I'm using is a Fluval 105 the media is used but dry from being stored. Would I be right in setting up the tank letting the filter cycle the tank with the...

cheers people sorry havent checked back. thanks :D

fair dincum :D

ill have a little look, i was using api stuff wich was pretty cheap and has lasted some time. just a side question is doing a 50% weekly change good? i mean i was doing this but the guy in my lfs advised doing 10-15percent daily as doing a big 50 at the end of the week is too much to quickly, i...

okai cheers for the info, i have been but was getting to the end of my bottle. guess ill just buy the pond stuff so it lasts longer :D

hello people. This is non plant tank related question, its on my 240ltr. Well basically im doing 10% water change daily, bacause its quite a small amount in comparison to the size of the tank would i still have to use a water treatment, or will the mature filter and rest of the water sort out...