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Hadrian

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so i went visit the loccal fish store where I gave my Tapajos red and where Jconnely works today. Just a few weeks later and he is already much better! He is in approximately 220 gallon with a lot of other fish and the conditions look solid. That said he had been in a 125, with two other smaller fish and it was a bare tank with a wet dry and a fluval fx5 and a 40w emperoror aquatics uv and i was changing the water religeously. Also great feeding (he isn't as fat as before ;)) The upshot is this: Jason and I think my source water is for ****. This is furthur proved by the fact that my H. Boucorti had frayed finnage even when he was alone after the pike left, and a very sweet electric blue ahli got white stuff on his eye and was deteriorating. I intend to have my source water checked (I have a 1 year old infant to boot). I suspect that the water is fine for humans ...still a bit disturbing. When I begin again after a dry out I will get some sort of water puification going. Thought you'd all be interested.
 
If that is so then that really sucks. Im gonna sound like Im coming from off the ''shortbus'', but maybe the problem is the bare tank. One of my tankswas on a stand ,bare , and the fish were always pale and haggard, with unpike-like eating habits, so they were skinny too. As soon as I blacked the back of the tank, and added substrate and a little cover, they were like different fish. I think that they were stressed due to the lighting and the fact that their field of vision was a bit overwelming with a couple people and a cat or two messingaround the tank.
 
Well that sucks for you, your shorty, and yer fish.
 
Hadrian, it could be you have either really soft water or really hard water...or your pH is unstable because of one of the latter. The harder water could be why the film was on the eyes, but abbrasion could be also. Definately get it checked out....that really will suck if its your water. Definately get an RO unit fo shore!! :D I have one actually for sale, but noone wanted it....such is life i guess!
 
the water is pretty ahrd...but my ahli which of course loves hard water was jacked up too. I think heavy metals or some high level of mineral or other is the more likely case here. PP what kind of RO unit you sellin' ?
 
Hadrian;842053; said:
the water is pretty ahrd...but my ahli which of course loves hard water was jacked up too. I think heavy metals or some high level of mineral or other is the more likely case here. PP what kind of RO unit you sellin' ?
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Its a 35gpd 4 stage RO unit. It worked pretty good for me when i was in Nebraska. I lived where we used well water, which was hard (8.2 pH...blah) and had a BUTT LOAD of heavy metals and minerals, magnesium, potassium, and iron to name a few...haha. It removed them and dropped my pH down to 7.0!! First time i tested it it baffled me! I was amazed at how much of a difference it can make. I had it set up so it would drain into a 55gal trashcan i bought at Lowes. Then i drilled a hole in the bottom and put a drain in it. Raised it up on a couple of cinder blocks, put a board to support the bottom, and WAHLA!! All i had to do was put the bucket under the trashcan, open the valve until it was full, then put it in the tank! Very simple! Only down side was I could only do a 50gal water change every two days. Which was more than enough...haha. Only thing it needs right now is some new filters, but I'm not even sure it needs though. When i disconnected it it was still running fine, but its been almost a year now since I had it hooked up, so who knows.
 
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