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Old 15-05-2017, 04:25 AM   #1
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Question Aquarium Store Friend seeking help - How to reduce hardness in big scale?

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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?
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Old 15-05-2017, 09:02 AM   #2
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https://www.hometips.com/buying-guid...r-systems.html


Go SLS and buy voltage converter if buying USA unit

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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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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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Old 22-05-2017, 04:01 AM   #7
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Ong Bro,
Nitrate and ammonia readings are green. Tested with JBL test kit.

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What is this acidic means?
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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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Ong Bro,
Nitrate and ammonia readings are green. Tested with JBL test kit.

LauLanChu,
What is this acidic means?
Nitrite levels?
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Old 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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