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This very soft water is what they bred in and fry raised to maturity in it seem fine but if I knew they would do better in harder water I would definitely want to amend it.

This has been my experience too. With the well water I was always battling multiple kinds of algae, it didn't take much to tip a tank from 'a bit of algae' to a full blown outbreak and I was constantly dealing with BGA. In the very soft water from belmore the only algae I encounter is some kind...

I used to live in an area where we had well water that was essentially liquid rock, I would run about 5L at a time through a distiller for the misting system on my emersed setups and even from that little water a thick mineral gunk was left behind after all the water had evaporated. I kept...

Originally I started by literally just making a cup of strong rooibos, taking a few sips and then letting it cool down before dumping it into the tank about once a week. In a ten gallon tank this worked out to be about the right amount of tint for my taste and had a significant effect on the...

I think in an ideal world you'd use as diverse an array of ingredients in your blackwater as circumstances allow. I've not noticed any difference since I started using alder cones as well as rooibos but I only began doing so last week when I found an alder tree. Purely based on how effective the...

I noticed a really significant improvement in Bolbitis, two forms of java fern, and Cryptocoryne parva when I started adding rooibos tea to my low tech tank and it also seemed to help with algae. Not only are the plants growing faster but they are much healthier and producing larger leaves too...

it wouldn't cost me any money. i might experiment and see if i notice any difference in growth between tap and spring water.

i am considering replacing 750ml from my 20l planted tank every day with bottled highland spring mineral water as the healthiest wild aquatic mosses i have seen are in natural springs and it seems that the added minerals may be beneficial for shrimp, however I want to make sure that this wont...