blancmange
Seedling
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- 18 Jun 2011
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Greetings , can anybody please advise me about using rain water for my weekly water changes :?: Have a tropical tank. Is it safe and do I have to add anything to it :?:
dw1305 said:Hi all,
Daisy chain 2 water butts together and take the water from the second butt, furthest away from the down-pipe. If you want you can carbon filter etc., but I just add some Daphnia to the butts. If your water has swimming Daphnia in it you are good to go.
cheers Darrel
so the first butt is to allow the contaminants to precipitate out? Allowing the cleaner water to flow into butt 2?dw1305 said:Hi all,
Daisy chain 2 water butts together and take the water from the second butt, furthest away from the down-pipe. If you want you can carbon filter etc., but I just add some Daphnia to the butts. If your water has swimming Daphnia in it you are good to go.
cheers Darrel
Yes, I'm not sure about soluble contaminants, but it stops any solid bits getting into the second butt, it also allows you to clean the butts out with-out losing all you water. I started out and I used to filter everything with carbon etc, but for the last 10 years I've used the Daphnia method without any problem.so the first butt is to allow the contaminants to precipitate out? Allowing the cleaner water to flow into butt 2?