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I have been keeping 30-40 bettas and danios adults and babies for 6-7months with the softener. So perhaps the system does contaminate the water so much

Yes the softener is salt based either Sodium or Potassium. I mean other than the lack of calcium and magnesium do these salts actually have any harm to animals and plants? If not I already keep danios and bettas which are, to my understanding, low GH fish. And I already dose ferts that also...

So, just to be sure, if I do have one faucet that is not connected to the softener I should just switch to using that for my fishkeeping needs right?

Hey guys, I have been doing research on whether water softener systems in houses is safe for fish keeping. My original water in my area is well water with GH and Kh up in the areas of 15-18 (dgh and dkh) and the ph at 8.2. My family installed a water softener system (works with water crystals, i...

Hello So this morning I was checking on my baby bettas that I bred myself and one had a long and CLEAR tendril coming out of it. The tendril isn’t moving so I assumed it is not a worm/parasite. It’s similar to a fish bone almost. I will attach a picture, it is hard to photograph it but you can...

No it does boost GH. I conducted the experiment by getting a gallon of water putting the accurate dosage of thrive in drops and measured GH before adding thrive and after. We filter our water so there is almost no Calcium or Magnesium where my GH measures our the tap 1 dGH. After Thrive I...

no I wouldn’t add any normally but our house has a water purification system that removes almost all the nutrients and trace elements from water so if i dont have fertilizers my plants struggle unless I over stock my tanks so theres an abundance of nitrate. But I do not overstock, and since my...

Well water already normally contains a bunch of trace elements and minerals that exist in fertilizers they arent chemicals they are minerals that exist in every food and drink we have too and fish have in waters too. I do agree maybe it does not apply to an enclosed ecosystem because they are so...

Yeah it has Calcium and Magnesium in the fertilizer, does not affect Ph from my testings but increases GH when I dose it the right way. But I just did not know the reliability of that. Thanks guys

I think you misunderstand me, I don’t overdose them I slightly underdose even and that already gets my GH up to a good level. And I do weekly changes and dose the fertilizers again anyways. Sorry, yeah I never overdose.

Hey guys so I was wondering if liquid fertilizers can successfully double as GH boosters. Because I did a test with NilocG Thrive liquid fertilizer and it increased GH ( I test with api liquid tests). I do have soft water but liquid fertilizer adds calcium and magnesium and keeps my GH raised...

Thank you, the aquarium has been running for a month and I got 2 others that have been running for 4 months. I recently moved houses ( I also had 8ph tap water) and when I got to new house and tested tap and I got 7.5, I was ecstatic, because now I could keep stuff like tetras (I haven't bought...

I actually did a quick test where i put an airstone in a small cup of tap water and the ph did go upto where it is in the tanks. Also I did some KH and GH readings which came up to be , 170ppm KH and 55ppm GH and the ph is 8.2. Are these parameters okay? im worried my low GH means my fish aren’t...

I didn’t think stratum would do anything because it is supposed to lower ph rather than raise. I am gonna do the 24 hour water test tomorrow and if i still get low on tap high in tank ig i might remove stratum