Wate a LFS told me, Is It true.

[nfored]

They said I can use [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]pure R/O and just add [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Neutral Regulator. This sounds funny to me as you get no trace elements, the bottle even say's I can add another product call "fresh trace"

I wanted to use R/O Right but cant find it locally
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[WyldFya]

Aqueon makes a trace element for freshwater fish, which is readily available.

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

It sucks that you're stuck using RO water because the tap water has trace amounts of ammonia. I don't know what to tell you.

Remind me never to drink the water in KC though!

 

[HPIZZLE]

HOLD UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THERES AMMONIA IN OUR AREAS WATER???????????????????????
how much?
is it harmful to fish?
hell, is it harmful to ME?!?!??!?!?!?!
what the F@#$ is going on?!?!??!?

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

That's what he said in another thread. He's getting ammonia on his water tests of his tap water.

 

[slowef]

HOLD UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THERES AMMONIA IN OUR AREAS WATER???????????????????????
how much?
is it harmful to fish?
hell, is it harmful to ME?!?!??!?!?!?!
what the F@#$ is going on?!?!??!?

There is much more in your water then just ammonia, you should get a paper from your water company every so often that list how much of everything they have found in your water, it list them in ppm, ppb, ect. so it should be easy for you to read. Mine listed things like runoff from sewers, radioactive stuff and a bunch of others... i got up to see if i still had it but i think i threw it away. But yeah.

 

[nfored]

thats what I thought. cool beans every one. I will pick that up tomorrow, I knew the LFS was full of him self, well I am all set now. Ill try and get pic's of my final project soon.

b.t.w ammonia is 1ppm (I saw someone asked)

 

[Nic]

just add R/O right.... sea chem makes a additive kent makes one as well.... seriously though just use your tap water and add Prime....

 

[dmed]

Neutral Regulator does not contain all the trace elements, mostly just phosphate salts. I would find a product manufactured specifically as an R/O additive.

1 ppm is a LOT of ammonia. What test kit are you using? Are you conditioning the tap water before testing, or testing straight from the tap? Are you testing free or total ammonia? Just curious.

 

[WyldFya]

Another thing, is you should check if your water department uses chloramines, and what type of test kit you are using.