Re: water hardness

[mjacobs2@tampabay.rr.com]

...perfect..........some people will tel you that the "drip" method is over-
kill but so what......if it takes a bit longer what's the problem with that?  
Your fish will like that just fine!!!

Mike


> hehe... Thanks Mike,
>  okay I got you. Just what I did the other day. I completely restarted a 20L 
> for the macmasteri I started with about 112ppm using R/O right 6.0 controller 
> because the tank they came from was similar in pH just the water was harder. 
> I usually drip my fish in when moving or when I get new ones. I'll take 
> around 2-3 hrs with them in a styro box and use a piece of airline tube and 
> let it drip so they can adjust. My intentions were to give them a few days 
> and start using RO with acid buffer. I did that today with a 10gal change 
> but, I only used about 1/8 tsp. of buffer because to 5 of the gallons because 
> it made the water around 30ppm. The other 5 was pure RO.
>                                                      thanks,
>                                                         JerryB
> 






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