my house water

[Niisan9178]

With a 55 gallon tank I wouldn't buy one that has a high gallon per day, 24 should be plenty per day. http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+4395+12093&pcatid=12093 should be fine for you.

 

[Niisan9178]

Oh and the gallon per day rating is assuming that you have good water pressure, or a pump attached to the RO unit, but I think the one I linked included a pump.

 

[truck_317]

well what i could try is filling up a small 5 gallon tank and put my sea chem in it and them run a under gravel filter for a day or so and them put a cheap fish in there and see if it lives. but the other problem is that the water will still smell because i dont have any carbon in the water

 

[Flash]

If he used RO water for water changes he'd eventually have 100% RO water in his tank with no minerals whatsoever & a kh of '0' which means no buffering capacity and his tank would crash. The alternative is using all those buffers and quite honestly that's not for the faint of heart, it'd be a pain in the butt. If the water is deemed safe for human consumtion I would bet its fine for fish.

He could try a 9:1 ratio of RO to well water. Also, he could use like a ph 7 buffer.

 

[fishnoob]

I use well water and it's fine.

 

[truck_317]

does ur well water smell like sulfer and does it leave stains on ur tubs if u dont clean them for a while

 

[gomezladdams]

They sell carbon filter water purifiers at the home depot.Ive seen a few of them used in peoples fishrooms.That would get rid of the sulper smell.
What kind of fish are we talking about?Rift lake cichlids and cental american would do well in water that hard.

 

[truck_317]

central and south america

 

[gomezladdams]

Unless the SA fish are w/c or blackwater fish I still wouldnt worry about the hardness.The carbon filter is a good idea for the whole house if your water is that nasty though.

 

[gobucks1]

Our water is from a well and it is about the same pH and hardness as yours. Don't know about the sulfur smell, the water at my grandparents smells like that, i think it has something to do with the water softener.

Can you guys drink your water?

If you don't want to get water from somewhere else or get a RO unit, i would just recommend keeping Rift Lake Cichlids and CA's.

Like Gomez said, they sell drinking water filters that get rid of the smell