Ro Water

[yodaxps]

Hi new here, I have a 200 litre fluval Roma fish tank, Can any one tell me the benifits of RO water purchaed from my local aquatic shop.. I do get black algee on most of my plants (not hair algee) I live in kent England which is fairly hard water, would changing to RO water Benifit my set up..Cheers

 

[jourdy288]

It depends on which fish you have in there, pure RO water cannot be used because there are no minerals in the water, and it all depends on which fish you're keeping.

 

[ox5477]

Typically, RO/DI water is only used for marine set-ups or extra sensitive fish like Discus. It doesn't have minerals so therefore it has the water stats have a hard time staying constant. The most important thing for a fish is to have water that does not have swinging stats. If a change occurs, it is much better to happen over time... but when it changes quickly, the fishes body cannot keep up and it can actually kill fish in some cases.

If your not keeping especially delicate or marine animals, then there is really no need to use RO/DI for water changes.... especially since it is much cheaper to use tap water and just dechlorinate it.

Ox

 

[rocknurworld2006]

Typically, RO/DI water is only used for marine set-ups or extra sensitive fish like Discus. It doesn't have minerals so therefore it has the water stats have a hard time staying constant. The most important thing for a fish is to have water that does not have swinging stats. If a change occurs, it is much better to happen over time... but when it changes quickly, the fishes body cannot keep up and it can actually kill fish in some cases.

If your not keeping especially delicate or marine animals, then there is really no need to use RO/DI for water changes.... especially since it is much cheaper to use tap water and just dechlorinate it.

Ox

i agree there is no need to use ro for any tropical/freshwater fish even dicus these days as they'll happily breed without it.

 

[petertr]

Typically, RO/DI water is only used for marine set-ups or extra sensitive fish like Discus. It doesn't have minerals so therefore it has the water stats have a hard time staying constant. The most important thing for a fish is to have water that does not have swinging stats. If a change occurs, it is much better to happen over time... but when it changes quickly, the fishes body cannot keep up and it can actually kill fish in some cases.

If your not keeping especially delicate or marine animals, then there is really no need to use RO/DI for water changes.... especially since it is much cheaper to use tap water and just dechlorinate it.

Ox

i agree there is no need to use ro for any tropical/freshwater fish even dicus these days as they'll happily breed without it.

Really??

 

[rocknurworld2006]

Typically, RO/DI water is only used for marine set-ups or extra sensitive fish like Discus. It doesn't have minerals so therefore it has the water stats have a hard time staying constant. The most important thing for a fish is to have water that does not have swinging stats. If a change occurs, it is much better to happen over time... but when it changes quickly, the fishes body cannot keep up and it can actually kill fish in some cases.

If your not keeping especially delicate or marine animals, then there is really no need to use RO/DI for water changes.... especially since it is much cheaper to use tap water and just dechlorinate it.

Ox

i agree there is no need to use ro for any tropical/freshwater fish even dicus these days as they'll happily breed without it.

Really??

yup

 

[ox5477]

ya rly....

haha

Ox

 

[petertr]

Typically, RO/DI water is only used for marine set-ups or extra sensitive fish like Discus. It doesn't have minerals so therefore it has the water stats have a hard time staying constant. The most important thing for a fish is to have water that does not have swinging stats. If a change occurs, it is much better to happen over time... but when it changes quickly, the fishes body cannot keep up and it can actually kill fish in some cases.

If your not keeping especially delicate or marine animals, then there is really no need to use RO/DI for water changes.... especially since it is much cheaper to use tap water and just dechlorinate it.

Ox

i agree there is no need to use ro for any tropical/freshwater fish even dicus these days as they'll happily breed without it.

Really??

yup

Surely not in my hard, alkali water though? (details on link in my sig)

 

[rocknurworld2006]

Typically, RO/DI water is only used for marine set-ups or extra sensitive fish like Discus. It doesn't have minerals so therefore it has the water stats have a hard time staying constant. The most important thing for a fish is to have water that does not have swinging stats. If a change occurs, it is much better to happen over time... but when it changes quickly, the fishes body cannot keep up and it can actually kill fish in some cases.

If your not keeping especially delicate or marine animals, then there is really no need to use RO/DI for water changes.... especially since it is much cheaper to use tap water and just dechlorinate it.

Ox

i agree there is no need to use ro for any tropical/freshwater fish even dicus these days as they'll happily breed without it.

Really??

yup

Surely not in my hard, alkali water though? (details on link in my sig)

u can use other ways more natural rather than using ro water

 

[petertr]

My bag of peat went in last night

 

[discus dreamer]

If you don't need it don't use it. Each litre of RO water is produced by using huge quantities of perfectly good tap water so environmentally speaking it's a disaster. BTW when you do water changes do use the old water for watering house plants or the garden, or even flushing the loo if you want to be hyper green!
DD