Hello,
New to this site but have been keeping fish and plants for more than 50 years, yes I’m old 🤪
Currently running 2 planted tanks with C02 and doing PPS auto dosing. Tanks are only about a month old. The startup went very well, absolutely no algae issues other than some minor diatom issues after the 1st couple weeks.
I have available both RO and well water available and I trying to get the right mix of both to end up with about a 7.5 ph.
I set aside two glasses of water from the well and RO and had the following readings straight from the tap.
RO 6.2 ph and a tds of 10
Well 7.07 ph and tds of 220
After airating for a few hours I end up with the following
RO 7.95
Well 8.64
Any ideas on why my RO water would go so high. I want to reach equilibrium but curious if the airation is throwing it off and I should just let it settle.
The 2 tanks that are running now I did a 75 RO and 25 well. Tanks read about 7.0 in the morning and down to about 6.1 after c02. I would prefer to start with 7.5 and go down to 6.5 after c02. When I set these two tanks up I just did my normal mix of the 75/25 but was surprised how low is is. This is after a water change (2-3 days. I was thinking I would end up with a 50/50 mix but confused by my RO reading and my tanks actual reading. Hoping someone can make some sense of this for me.
Thanks in advance
New to this site but have been keeping fish and plants for more than 50 years, yes I’m old 🤪
Currently running 2 planted tanks with C02 and doing PPS auto dosing. Tanks are only about a month old. The startup went very well, absolutely no algae issues other than some minor diatom issues after the 1st couple weeks.
I have available both RO and well water available and I trying to get the right mix of both to end up with about a 7.5 ph.
I set aside two glasses of water from the well and RO and had the following readings straight from the tap.
RO 6.2 ph and a tds of 10
Well 7.07 ph and tds of 220
After airating for a few hours I end up with the following
RO 7.95
Well 8.64
Any ideas on why my RO water would go so high. I want to reach equilibrium but curious if the airation is throwing it off and I should just let it settle.
The 2 tanks that are running now I did a 75 RO and 25 well. Tanks read about 7.0 in the morning and down to about 6.1 after c02. I would prefer to start with 7.5 and go down to 6.5 after c02. When I set these two tanks up I just did my normal mix of the 75/25 but was surprised how low is is. This is after a water change (2-3 days. I was thinking I would end up with a 50/50 mix but confused by my RO reading and my tanks actual reading. Hoping someone can make some sense of this for me.
Thanks in advance