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I cut my hard desert water in half with r/o, which drops the hardness in half. I use peat in my canister filters, and a little goes a long way. I will watch the depletion of peat from the planet. Meanwhile, I’ve got enough for a couple of years. I have community tanks, with no specific efforts...
Dear Redeemed, I’ve followed your thread with interest, since I plan to start with Apistos when I can get a Discus tank set up. Although I’ve been in the hobby for 50 years, and have bred Pearl Gouramis and wild discus successfully, and enjoy biotopish planted community tanks, there has been a...
I have had great luck with RRF after a slow start. Improved lighting made all the difference, adding OFN to my nano and a Finnex to my 20L. Stocking fish and nerites on the heavy side, and using organic potting soil in the younger 20L no doubt increased the fertilization. Now I have to thin the...
Lots of good advice, including using gardening sense along with measured parameters. I have hard water, mostly due to CaCO3. When I was getting used to it, I was in a flurry to find out a tap water to distilled/R/O ratio, with a lot of water chemistries. I also used peat in the canister to...
I have hard water here in the southern desert of New Mexico. Very hard, with high carbonates. I dilute the tap water 1:1 with r/o or distilled water. I also use Fluval peat granules in the filter, and found it doesn’t take much- perhaps 1/2” in a nylon net in a small canister. You can see the...