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I know carbon in not normally recommended for planted tank. I have a tank that is dense planted with java moss and bolbitis heudelotti and the plants are growing fine. there is some hair algae in it that I'm dieing to get rid of but my oto just don't seemed to nibble on it. Try keeping some...

Well I'm using 100% RO water for my crsytal red shrimp tank now and I've managed to keep my SS grade CRS and CBS alive for over 2 weeks! Previously all the shrimp will die within 5 days. I don't remineralised with over the shelf product, instead I'm using fert to remineralise the water. Calcium...

That's true actually. Totally got the wrong message across. sorry mate!

GH booster contains calcium in it. That's why the KH went up.

Damn the water here. Didn't expect to lose one month worth of salary by dumping it into the water!

bought 18 SS/SSS grade CRS and 40 A grade CRS. Plonk them in the tank thinking it's matured and I'm keeping up with my tank maintenence and it should be alright. Within 1 day I lose 50% of it. by the end of 2 weeks I'm left with 1 A grade. well you go work the maths. It kills me to think about...

Well when you keep CRS with your tap water and you ended up lossing nearly thousands of pound.... I think you wouoldn't want to add anything in your tap into your RO. :D I think I will stick to remineralising with my salts

I'll be using it my room as there is a sink here. Been looking inside and outside and even in storage room. There is a few boxes that's lock and one of them had 2 pipes coming out of it. I'm pretty darn sure that's where the shut off is. hacking into that box would be the last thing I want to...

Just bought an 50GPD 3 stage RO unit from RO-man. Decided to use the needle clamp. I sure hope it work out as what I have plan in my head. It would be a nightmare if it starts leaking as I have no idea where the main shut off in this house is. I've tried looking.

And I've also came across another question while debating within myself if I should get a remineraliser. What happen to the carbonate in the tap water when it goes through RO? I assumed that it will be removed from the water and hence the soft water. Assuming that one is remineralising using...

So I'm assuming that if you are moving house, you just leave the saddle piercing kit on the tube and screw it off and just take the RO unit with you? Do I need to switch off the main prior to connecting? I came across this webpage which shows the step by step installation...

Is there any other way of connecting RO unit besides making a hole in the incoming water supply tube? I'm renting at the moment and I don't think my landlord will be please to see me drilling a hole and causing flood.

If you are dosing with EI and you've got a supply of magnesium sulphate, calcium sulphate, potassium nitrate, potassium sulphate and trace element, that should pretty much cover everything that is in the commercial product isn't it? I don't know what's wrong at the moment but I'm blaming my...

The only reason why I don't want to add anything from my tap water to RO water is because I'm afraid there might be some chemical in there that is potentially hazardous to my shrimp. I had bought some crystal red shrimp in the past and they had all died. Initially I thought it was my tank...

Hmm after reading all these thread about RO water I start wondering if there is any point in using remineralising salt? If you look at the content of all these water conditioner, they only add potassium, calcium, magnesium, and trace element back in the water. Surely if you are dosing with EI...

I had a friend who deals with loads of discus. He had 500 tanks of discus at one point! Apparently RO water is not really needed for discus if you don't intend to breed them. They are perfectly happy with moderate to hard water if they are accustomized to the water parameter slowly. This friend...