Rowdy Hotel
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I've been keeping fish for as long as I can remember but have always been somewhat of a generalist. I've kept and bred various cichlids, wild livebearers, and cyprinids. I've had success with the more common apistos in the past such as hobby strains of cacatuoides, basically any fish which will breed in my tap water. I haven't had my water tested in years but the last time I did it was 7.2-7.4 , 75-125 ppm according to those quick dip testing strips. I'm sure some of the hardier strains will breed in this, but I've gotten a few apistogramma in the past few weeks that I don't think can breed in this and am looking to get some taenacara soon which also need really soft water. I've been looking online for RO/DI kits but am a little confused as to what exactly I need. I will be buying a conductivity meter as it seems to be the preferred method of measuring hardness and all the collecting trip articles I've been reading have been giving the collecting site's conductivity. I've been wondering what the cheapest RO/DI kit I can get away with is. Is a 1 micron sediment filter a lot better than a 5 micron sediment filter? What about 1 or 5 micron carbon filter blocks? Is a DI even necessary?