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Hi folks,
Any one have experience of making DIY remineralisation salts??
I've been using RO water filtered through peat in the past which seems fine for the apisto's in the fish house, but I have a couple of projects/ideas where raising the GH/KH a little bit might be an advantage.
Anyway long and the short of it is I bypassed the RO membrane this weekend after a test on the tap water revealed it now had a GH of <1, (was GH 3 when we moved here 4 years back, jumped to 9 a year or two back, hence the RO unit)
Tap water now just goes through the pre filter, carbon and coconut block to remove any 'nasties' (and the tap water GH now checked every time before filling the water butts just to make sure it is still <1!!), so using treated tap water or similar to raise the GH ain't going to work!!
I've used Kent RO right in the past, but it's expensive when you consider the litres of water involved (and rumour has it the sole UK importer of Kent Marine has decided to drop the range). I've had a look around and found the following recipe:
Per 10 gallons of water > 1 tablespoon marine salt, 1/2 tablespoon sodium bicarbonate. They reckon this should give a GH of ~2 and KH of ~4
Any other recipes????
Thanks
Andrew
Any one have experience of making DIY remineralisation salts??
I've been using RO water filtered through peat in the past which seems fine for the apisto's in the fish house, but I have a couple of projects/ideas where raising the GH/KH a little bit might be an advantage.
Anyway long and the short of it is I bypassed the RO membrane this weekend after a test on the tap water revealed it now had a GH of <1, (was GH 3 when we moved here 4 years back, jumped to 9 a year or two back, hence the RO unit)
Tap water now just goes through the pre filter, carbon and coconut block to remove any 'nasties' (and the tap water GH now checked every time before filling the water butts just to make sure it is still <1!!), so using treated tap water or similar to raise the GH ain't going to work!!
I've used Kent RO right in the past, but it's expensive when you consider the litres of water involved (and rumour has it the sole UK importer of Kent Marine has decided to drop the range). I've had a look around and found the following recipe:
Per 10 gallons of water > 1 tablespoon marine salt, 1/2 tablespoon sodium bicarbonate. They reckon this should give a GH of ~2 and KH of ~4
Any other recipes????
Thanks
Andrew