I have a heavily planted tank with Crystal Red Shrimp, which are doing very well, and thriving!
My question is, how do you guys that live in a hard water area use to soften your water? I have a full RODI setup and use Bee Shrimp GH+ with Dennerle scapers soil to give my tank a nice soft ph of 6.5-6.3 give or take during CO2 injection!
I’ve heard some people just use tap water, but living on the chalk downs near Portsmouth means it only just flows out the tap before turning to chalk and rock...
Interested in other method, I’ve used 50/50 mix but exhausted the substrate fairly rapidly... it’s only a 25ltr tank, so only mixing 10ltrs during a W/C and dosing EI Micro/Macro alternates days..
Thanks,
Chris
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My question is, how do you guys that live in a hard water area use to soften your water? I have a full RODI setup and use Bee Shrimp GH+ with Dennerle scapers soil to give my tank a nice soft ph of 6.5-6.3 give or take during CO2 injection!
I’ve heard some people just use tap water, but living on the chalk downs near Portsmouth means it only just flows out the tap before turning to chalk and rock...
Interested in other method, I’ve used 50/50 mix but exhausted the substrate fairly rapidly... it’s only a 25ltr tank, so only mixing 10ltrs during a W/C and dosing EI Micro/Macro alternates days..
Thanks,
Chris
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