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Re: Rift lake salts



In a message dated 6/29/00 10:04:13 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
joeah@webtv.net writes:

> My tap water has less than 17 ppm of hardness.  I have been using nylon
>  bags of crushed coral to gently add some hardness to the water.  Is this
>  a good aproach?

That will get it done.  Very slowly.Crushed dolomite works a little faster.  
But most of us would die for <1º of hardness.  Why are you doing it?  And is 
that General (non-carbonate) hardness, or carbonate hardness(alkalinity)?

Bob Dixon


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