yeah my tap water is terrible, nitrites and chloramine and ammonia and probably other shit i dont even know about. Been having issues ever since i moved here. Even had fish inexplicably die overnight after a water change several times. Switching to RO. Plants wont grow in it either but I think that's more about having sand as a substrate it's probably just too dense.
I'm not an expert either as just started using an RO/DI system 😀. I wonder what adjustments have you made since you made this video. And curious if you still mixing RO water with Tap water. I noticed that your using Equilibrium, would this solution give a more control result? I don't have any plants but Saechem suggest to use Replenish since I don't have plants. I am planning to get Discus fish eventually. Thanks for the video.
Since I moved houses I have stopped using RO. I plan to try it again to see if it helps with plant growth here! Anytime you use ro water you should use something to remineralize. I'd recommend equilibrium or salty shrimp. As for plants get a good all in one like easy green or tropicals fertilizer
Amazing video. I have a large 350gal tank that houses angel fish and I use.tap water. The ph is too high for them especially at night. I have co2 but I want to try using ro water. Can I begin introducing the water on water changes? What is a good percentage of water change to introduce ro water?
Travis Bedard 20% at a time would be perfect. It could potentially be a big ph swing so just watch closely. If they seem stressed next time do 10%. However, if you aren’t having any issues I wouldn’t switch to ro unless I needed to.
@@AquaticJournal cool thanks for the reply. Ours re-adds them in the last phase so I'll probably switch to the RO and treat it with a little bit of Prime water conditioner versus tap water. Cheers
I have since moved and do not need ro water and I still use it occasionally. I usually use it with tap but if I use it by itself I will buffer it for gh and kh. I don't worry about the pH
I don't feel the need for ro filter water, I'm interested on recycling dirty water instead. If ro/di filter is that good and stripped the water clean to 0 tsd, Then why not run dirty tank water through for clean-recyle-water? I want to run fishtank in 100% recycle water. All water on earth is recycle water, just with different conditions. I have to pay water, so. This wont effect anyone, if you don't have to pay for water. I'm forced to pay for water. 💦💦💦🤑🤑🤑💦💦💦
@@AquaticJournal Oh collecting rain water or well water is great and awesome for free water usage. It's 100% legal and free. Just need to dig a well or used giant containers, It's just really tough to do that in the city without land used violations. There's 1,000 ways to recycle water for reused- -from aquaponic -anoxic zone -chemical reactions -to extreme over filtration sumps. I just need to find the right combination that's might work for my situation.
I need help. I have RO water with a mineralizer. I am wondering if you have fish that consistently get sick? I don't know whats wrong but I've had a 55 gallon for 2 years and every time I try livebearers that ultimately die. Why is that. Thy cycle is going and ph is decent, around 7. Help.
I dont understand why you would need to remineralize RO water or why TDS would even drop. It's RO not RO/DI. deionization is an extra step which removes all TDS, that's not part of an RO system. Going full RO/DI over RO is more of like a Reef Tank thing.
@@Keldrath really? I did not know that but that seems to be true through a quick google search. I have a well so it does not have either chlorine or chloramine. But that is interesting.