How Can You Lower Nitrates?

[LolaLouie]

Sorry Gemma. I just seen your previous post saying you can't connect a RO system.

This is a good alternative.

[URL="http/www.aquatics-warehouse.co.uk/acatal...RATION_126.html"]http/www.aquatics-warehouse.co.uk/acatal...RATION_126.html[/URL]

Its a deioniser. It will remove the nitrate and soften the water in the same way an RO unit does, but it does not need to be plumbed in. You just connect it to the tap like a hose when you want to use it.

Is that better?

You just attach that to your tap and it makes water like RO water?? That sounds too good to be true?!?

 

[LolaLouie]

Ha ha, ok I get the catch after researching a little more, you have to replace the cartridge every 10-30 gallons... £50 for the filter and then £30 per water change (aka per week) plus cost of all chemicals... I don't love my fish that much!!

Really buying RO water from LFS is cheaper but will just be so impractical living on a 3rd floor flat with no elevator! Also think my boyfriend would kill me, he thinks bottled water for us is a waste of money let alone for the fish!!

Thanks for all the advice guys but I think maybe I'll stick to my crappy hard, nitrate filled, alkaline water!! Oh but on the positive side i tested my pH and it seems to have gone from 8 down to 7.8, in the tap as well as the tank. Wonder how that happened?

Thanks again!