On a uni field trip today I was informed by a native plant expert that water straight from the tap in Adelaide is 800ppm. Now that is way too high for discus. Is this true as I have not measured myself? Can you boil the water? And what with? How much is reverse Osmosis filter? and how is it used?
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Mon Mar 14, 2005, 10:25 AM #1Larvae
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Mon Mar 14, 2005, 10:33 AM #2Eternal Moderator
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800 ppm is liquid rock! Are you sure that's what he meant.
Maybe some of our Adelaide friends can answer that.Thirty-five years keeping and breeding discus, and I'm still learning :P
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Mon Mar 14, 2005, 10:45 AM #3Moderator
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800ppm is like the dead sea isn't it?
your right way to hard for discus, i think you may have misheardRYAN --- DIY ROCKS!
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Wed Mar 16, 2005, 11:13 AM #4Larvae
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Apparently thats right I asked a local Aquarium shop owner who I am mates with. Bad I know are there any answers.
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Wed Mar 16, 2005, 11:28 AM #5Eternal Moderator
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If the water really is that hard, Reverse Osmosis is the only thing that will help. I still think they mean 80 ppm which is suitable for most tropical fish. 800 ppm is twice as hard as what you would normally use for rift lake cichlids or brackish fish.
Thirty-five years keeping and breeding discus, and I'm still learning :P
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Thu Mar 17, 2005, 10:53 PM #6Larvae
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We get bad salinity at the bottom of the murray as our mates in vic and NSW hoard it all up! They keep having to change the requirements each year for drinking water as it keeps becoming harder.
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Fri Mar 18, 2005, 08:27 AM #7Eternal Moderator
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Well that would explain the reading then. At that degree of hardness, it must leave deposits in washing machines and dishwashers, and take a huge amount of detergent to produce suds.
Unless you want to keep marine fish, I think RO is your only answer.Thirty-five years keeping and breeding discus, and I'm still learning :P
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Sun Mar 20, 2005, 02:11 AM #8Larvae
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Ok asked many different places and get different answers not that bad but will find out by testing myself. If you want something done right...
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Sun Mar 20, 2005, 03:10 AM #9Medium Discus
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I live at morphett vale 5 mins down the road from you. Im getting a order through age of aquariums some time this week and Ive ordered a hardness test kit as well so if you dont want to buy one I'll let you know the readings soon but I was also told our water was quite soft so I dont know guess we'll have to see.
Leanne
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Tue Mar 22, 2005, 04:27 AM #10Medium Discus
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Ok guys got my hardness test kit today and this is what I found coming out of my tap I had to add 6 drops which would make it 120ppm gh but coming out of my tank I had to add 17 drops which made it 340ppm gh. Then I measured KH and that was out of tap 4 drops which is 40 ppm and out of tank 3 drops at 30 ppm why is my tank so much higher in gh than my tap water. I did use myt drum today for the first time and I added a new canister filter would this of made the difference
But it is good to know adelaide tap water isnt 800ppm
Leanne
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