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All i know is my tap water was too hard for hongsloi and nijjensi eggs to hatch. GH is 7ish with tds around 130; kh is around 3.
Some people call this soft water others not so soft. I call it too hard for my eggs and that is all that really matters ;)
I basically agree - but it is a bad kind of green algae - no clue if it is bad health wise for fishes but it grows when things are way out of whack. This is of course a non-scientific observation that i get that sort of algae when i goof and something is dying - like when i cut all the roots off...
Different people have different types of 'tap water' without giving the specificis of your tap water (kh,gh,tds) it is hard to make much of this statement.
I left out a detail - it is actually:
heater -> temp control value -> carbon filter -> carbon filter -/> split -> ro unit; -> available for aquariums
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Not all my aquariums will get pure ro water - also i figure i would let the carbon filter in the ro unit exhaust. The vendor for the carbon...
One thing I should have mentioned is that i'm prefiltering the water - i.e,
water heater -> carbon filter -> carbon filter -> ro unit
(the carbon filters are just giant thingy filled with carbon - i'm using two of them in serial as paranoia).
A few data points - nilogc base tds is around 60 and his output is around 5 from this unit. My base tds is around 120 so it might be quite a bit higher (i guess that also depends what is in the water - he said his water had a lot of iron - mine has a lot of limestone). He indicated his cartridge...
Thanks. I guess for low ph tank i want tds zero - well maybe not - is the tds left behind kh or gh - i presume gh so maybe that is useful for plants? We have chlorine here - definitely not chloramine though there is nothing to stop the city from changing i don't expect it.
I checked buck-eye...
I've mentioned that i'm setting up a large tank this spring - i will use pure ro wter but i'm unsure if it matters if the peat is under the substrate or in the filter. My hope is i can put it in the filter (in filter bag) so it is easy to replace as needed.
Conversely is there a difference...
Naively I thought for harem breeders there was some advantage of dither fish as it keeps the male entertained while the female is doing her thing. Of course if ones sole purpose is breeding; removing the male is probably the better option (if you can catch him ;) )
Unusual i suppose but in my non-black water tank i had a Echinodorus bleheri struggle for literally two years and then suddenly decide it was time to grow and took off like a rocket. It was in an aquarium that everything else grew well so i'm not sure why it struggled and what trigger it into...
You could keep a bolivian ram but the behavior is a bit unpredictable also you likely would not know the sex. German blue ram would not be an option due to temp as you would not want to keep Borellie in the 80s. I've found cacatuoides a bit unpredictable even as a singular male; generally they...
And which ones did you find interesting? Btw i've been very happy with my nannacara anomala; ok it isn't the prettiest fish but he seems to have a much wider range of behavior than the apisto i've owned.
From my reading Apistogramma steindachneri seems like a decent 'easy to keep' fish given that it is white water et all yet i almost never see it for sale. I do realize it prefers warmer waters in the low 80s but in some cases that would be a positive for those of you in airzona with broken acs...
wetspot has some decent stocking and they qt their fishes before selling. jdaquatics has developed a reputation that is positive. tangelupcichild is fantastic but they generally sell larger cichild but sometime has a few dwarves.
Btw i've kept 3 set of cichild in a 40B with success; but it...