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I normally take water from a butt connected to the gutter from my shed roof. The Butt gets emptied and cleaned out once a year. The water from it normally reads about 30-35 ppm. The other day the rain was so heavy I was collecting overflow from the gutter and after passing it through some...

The Good stuff. I usually collect rainwater from a water butt that’s fed from a large shed with a rubber roof. It rained so heavily yesterday though I decided to collect some from the overflowing gutter. I normally get a TDS reading of about 30ppm from the water butt. Direct from the gutter...

I think I’ve mentioned before that I filter the rainwater from my shed. Either through coffee filters or even kitchen roll if I run out. I normally do this two or three times. I’m just wondering though if there’s any type of fish and shrimp safe chemical I can add to the water once it’s filtered...

I saw a Seachem Alert combo pack for £7.49 so thought I’d give it a try. Not sure what my PH is though, what do you reckon?! 😂

I don’t normally do much water testing but with Shrimps in one tank and Fish and Shrimps in the other perhaps I should. I’m wondering what test kits folks on here are using. Do the 6 or 7 in one types work well? Buying separate tests could work out expensive.

I use mostly rain water in my 60L and 37L Nanos. Before using it I filter it through some kitchen towel to get any of the larger particles out of it. I just checked it after filtering with a TDS meter and got a reading of 23ppm. Out of curiosity I checked both Nanos, the 60L read 280ppm and the...

I collect rainwater from a covered water butt. I line a funnel with kitchen paper to filter out any large particles but in practice it doesn’t get too dirty. The water is then stored in a couple of ten litre containers indoors to warm up closer to tank temp. It’s then mixed with a little tap...

I haven’t used test kits for many years. Once the new tank is cycled though and the lockdown is over I want to introduce some fish and wondering if I should test the water. I’m thinking that maybe at least a nitrite test would be a good idea but what do folks think?

Sorry if this has been linked before but I’ve only just seen it and thought others may find it of interest. https://www.kokosgoldfish.invisionzone.com/topic/120544-dechlorinating-with-vitamin-c-ascorbic-acid-ascorbate/

Anyone use these? I just want to make occasional checks of the rainwater I’m using at the moment. I don’t use CO2 so not sure how much it’s going to change anyway. They sell PH4 to PH9 papers for a couple of quid on the auction site.

Anyone tried this in their planted Aquariums? I read some time ago that you shouldn’t drink it as it may contain some heavy metals. It has been suggested that it could be used for watering gardens though. Our unit doesn’t produce that much waste but it is very low in TDS at only 40. Rainwater...

I’m just starting an unheated and unfiltered 10L Nano. The only occupants until this evening was some Tetra Active Substrate and four Moss balls. I bought some Spider wood to put into the tank today and when I took the cover glass off I noticed quite a bit of surface film. I’m sure the culprit...

I hope this is in the right place. I took a reading straight from the kitchen tap and got 265ppm. I then took a reading from the drinking water part of the tap that goes through an in-line Brita filter and got 185ppm. Any ideas on what the filter is actually removing. It’s not much but certainly...

Are these any good, seem to be a good price. http://www.easypet247.com/product.php?id_product=39