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15-05-2017, 04:25 AM | #1 |
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Aquarium Store Friend seeking help - How to reduce hardness in big scale?
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Hi Friends, My friend is running an aquarium store. Unfortunately he is in trouble with daily inventory loss due to the water quality available in his area. The GH and KH is too high. 1) Even though there are some solutions (SERA peat balls) to reduce the hardness, given the scale of aquariums (30-40 tanks) its not feasible. 2) I'm not sure about RO Water filter since the minerals should be added later to avoid osmotic stress (something like Seachem Replenish) 3) What could be a scalable value for money solution? Could anyone advice? |
15-05-2017, 09:02 AM | #2 |
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https://www.hometips.com/buying-guid...r-systems.html
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15-05-2017, 11:54 AM | #3 |
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use RO on a part of the water.
Then use the filtered water to dilute supplied water to desired hardness.
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20-05-2017, 06:19 PM | #4 |
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Thank you Ong and Dave. I'll pass this info to my friend.
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20-05-2017, 07:12 PM | #5 |
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Water hardness may not be the issue.
Nitrite and ammonia readings?
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21-05-2017, 12:38 PM | #6 |
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From my understanding when we talk about water 'Hardness' there are two things, GH (general hardness) and KH (carbonate hardness). They may or may not be relating. GH is more of dissolved metallic cations and KH is dissolved bicarbonate anions. So when we speak of wanting to reduce 'hardness' probably they need different means, one is with RO and the other is with probably by acidic means.
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22-05-2017, 04:01 AM | #7 |
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Ong Bro,
Nitrate and ammonia readings are green. Tested with JBL test kit. LauLanChu, What is this acidic means? |
22-05-2017, 01:47 PM | #8 |
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Acidic means is intentionally introduce material or gas that can lower the pH, e.g. CO2, drift wood...
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22-05-2017, 09:30 PM | #9 |
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Nitrite levels?
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24-05-2017, 01:38 AM | #10 |
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Thanks for all the inputs, friends. My friend is carrying out a water test with all parameters. Once i get the result, i'll post it in the forum.
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