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Ron Gretz
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reducing water hardness
I came up with an idea to reduce the water hardness in my tank. I use a biowheel and don't really have any place to put peat in the tank. I went to the LFS and bought a filter cover ( an extremely fine mesh net covering ) that one would normally put over the water intake on a biowheel. Rather, I took some peat (from a box of loose Fluval peat I had purchased) and filled the mesh bag with it, pulling the opening shut and tying the strings in a knot (resembling a duffel bag). It floats very nicely at the top of the tank and is very clean; keeping all of the peat inside the bag while providing the water softening effect of that the peat provides.
I came up with an idea to reduce the water hardness in my tank. I use a biowheel and don't really have any place to put peat in the tank. I went to the LFS and bought a filter cover ( an extremely fine mesh net covering ) that one would normally put over the water intake on a biowheel. Rather, I took some peat (from a box of loose Fluval peat I had purchased) and filled the mesh bag with it, pulling the opening shut and tying the strings in a knot (resembling a duffel bag). It floats very nicely at the top of the tank and is very clean; keeping all of the peat inside the bag while providing the water softening effect of that the peat provides.