aec34
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(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
I use rain water for my shrimp tanks, but with the lack of rain, and then the warm, then the showers, the water has gone cloudy/yellow/slightly smelly. I have two covered barrels coming off the shed roof, daisy chained together, and I draw from the second of them. I think I’ve been quite spoiled in that the water has been crystal clear for the last year.
I’m confident there is no man-made pollution, and this is just what happens when you leave a barrel of unsterilised water in the sun. Is this going to do anything bad to the tanks? My gut says not - but should I do anything differently for a while? I don’t have fish, so any small critters will have to be hoovered up by the shrimp. I only have 20 and 10 l tanks at the mo, so am not changing vast quantities.
I use rain water for my shrimp tanks, but with the lack of rain, and then the warm, then the showers, the water has gone cloudy/yellow/slightly smelly. I have two covered barrels coming off the shed roof, daisy chained together, and I draw from the second of them. I think I’ve been quite spoiled in that the water has been crystal clear for the last year.
I’m confident there is no man-made pollution, and this is just what happens when you leave a barrel of unsterilised water in the sun. Is this going to do anything bad to the tanks? My gut says not - but should I do anything differently for a while? I don’t have fish, so any small critters will have to be hoovered up by the shrimp. I only have 20 and 10 l tanks at the mo, so am not changing vast quantities.