This isn't something I've seen discussed around here a ton but there are many of you who keep fish who are used to softer waters.
My local water is very "Hard" PH of 8.4ish with high GH/KH. I forget the numbers offhand.
I'm looking at setting up a dozen tanks for shrimp and plecos that like the 6.5ish PH range so the only way I can reach that is using RO/DI water on top of an PH reducing soil like ADA amazoina or the like.
What I'm trying to sort out is adding minrals back to the RO/DI water. There are lots of comercial applicatiuons for this but they tend to be about $30-50 for a 200g tub. I've found a recipe for a homebrew version that seems super solid and I can make about 20-30x the amount for the same cost. Does anyone have any expericne with water minerals?
Commercial Version
The home brew version is:
Dose to desired TDS.
My local water is very "Hard" PH of 8.4ish with high GH/KH. I forget the numbers offhand.
I'm looking at setting up a dozen tanks for shrimp and plecos that like the 6.5ish PH range so the only way I can reach that is using RO/DI water on top of an PH reducing soil like ADA amazoina or the like.
What I'm trying to sort out is adding minrals back to the RO/DI water. There are lots of comercial applicatiuons for this but they tend to be about $30-50 for a 200g tub. I've found a recipe for a homebrew version that seems super solid and I can make about 20-30x the amount for the same cost. Does anyone have any expericne with water minerals?
Commercial Version
The home brew version is:
Dose to desired TDS.