Yvette
Juvenile Bristlenose
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 | | Subject: Topping up water Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:01 pm | |
| Hi, I have a couple of open top tanks that lose water before a w/c is due. Should I use RO water alone to just top up ot the mix of ro/tap I normally use? There is no possibility of covering the tanks as this was all the advise I got elsewhere! | |
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Doug
Bristlenose King
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| | Subject: Re: Topping up water Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:04 am | |
| I would suggest using RO water only. the water loss is from evopration and if you replace with tap water the salts will eventually build up... I made this mistake with my main tank and i was eventually forced to replace all of the gravel as the salts had leached into it something terrible! | |
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Yvette
Juvenile Bristlenose
Number of posts : 128
Age : 65
Location : Carlton in Lindrick, Worksop
Job/hobbies : fish and dogs
Thank You Points : 4
Registration date : 2009-04-04
| | Subject: Re: Topping up water Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:52 am | |
| - Doug wrote:
- I would suggest using RO water only. the water loss is from evopration and if you replace with tap water the salts will eventually build up... I made this mistake with my main tank and i was eventually forced to replace all of the gravel as the salts had leached into it something terrible!
Thanks Doug, that was my thought but just wanted to be sure - had major water problems as been in plaster fot 2months and was impossible to change water! | |
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