Hey
Interested to hear people's experience of using rain water. I am conscious of being as Eco friendly as possible and have heard good things about using rain water for water changes particularly if your tank ph tends to be on higher side. (My 50 litre/12 US gallon tank tends to sit at around 7.4 most probably because it has a think layer if sand as a substrate.)
I've heard you need to be careful of acid rain, particularly as I live outside a major city. But if when I get around to doing a ph reading of the rain water, its within good limits, am I ok to go ahead and use rain water out of a clean water butt or is there any other nasties other than acidity I need to be aware of with rainwater?
Thanks
Anna
Interested to hear people's experience of using rain water. I am conscious of being as Eco friendly as possible and have heard good things about using rain water for water changes particularly if your tank ph tends to be on higher side. (My 50 litre/12 US gallon tank tends to sit at around 7.4 most probably because it has a think layer if sand as a substrate.)
I've heard you need to be careful of acid rain, particularly as I live outside a major city. But if when I get around to doing a ph reading of the rain water, its within good limits, am I ok to go ahead and use rain water out of a clean water butt or is there any other nasties other than acidity I need to be aware of with rainwater?
Thanks
Anna