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Grobbeldopp
5 years ago

Hello

Usually not at all, because except for breeding, the water does not have to be soft.

Rainwater possible. Rainwater is not controlled from the outset for you. Depending on how you catch it, store it and where you live it could also be dirty. Yet often a good solution, but not the most reliable. If you want low pH values, you almost need to use it in 1:8 oe.

Drop into any change water with pH minus the KH: Possible. The hydrochloric acid destroys the acid buffer, the caebonate hardness disappears and the pH falls. This is unelegant because it’s “fake soft water”. Nevertheless, this can be done in principle…. Question is for what.

BESSER: Buy reverse osmosis or full desalinator and produce hardy water yourself, filter a splash of tap water to it and over peat or then a little pH minus.

With relatively soft water from the line also very good: peat cannon

https://www.remowiechert.de/torfkanone.html

However, reddish peat water is not a plant paradise. There are often only unsustainable species.

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Very soft water under KH 1 with pH approx. 5.5 has some disadvantages. The aquariums are more susceptible to overfeeding and water pollution, as fish are more fragile in soft water for nitrite and filter bacteria populations. There can also be (similar) fluctuations in the pH against which one can do little. Errors in handling the basins are worse here.

Lennard801
5 years ago

There are various possibilities:

  1. Reverse osmosis system
  2. Full desalination
  3. Torfkanone

What exactly you take depends on how much water you need and how hard Your starting water is, however, probably always a question of faith.

I myself use a peat cannon and thus achieve very good and favorable results, but also have a rainforest biotopequarium (i.e. the brown color is desired) and very low output values (from my line comes water with GH 5,7).

But if you agree to these three methods, you will surely be able to decide quickly.

Idiealot
5 years ago
Reply to  Gehtdinixan12

Too cumbersome? Well, that’s what you want to care for animals. You get informed, receive clues and warning and ignore them fleissig. It’s worth it again. My advice. Just take tap water and listen to unreflected mediums to enter if you have no idea.

dsupper
5 years ago
Reply to  Gehtdinixan12

let these drops be – this is an acid and this destroys the KH – salt is produced!! Your water becomes only seemingly softer, but always more salty – many fish do not endure at all.

dsupper
5 years ago

lach – I didn’t start with this – but you don’t get the echo, I’m sure. This is always the case when you have to mount something – and even then you have to hold the mirror.

Idiealot
5 years ago

I don’t care about your words. Is that your typical feminine cunting behavior? Are you looking for my posts? * Smile*

dsupper
5 years ago

Extremely helpful comment. And so motivating and building formulated and so a friendly tone …herrje

Lacrimis92
5 years ago

In the ideal case, you buy water from the dealer or ask him how he fills the basin from which the fish come – achieve the same results as possible

Grobbeldopp
5 years ago
Reply to  Lacrimis92

the dealer uses tap water.

dsupper
5 years ago

Hello,

for Neonsalmler you don’t have to soak the water. You can swim wonderfully in a water of 2 – 25 GdH.

Water “soften” is not done with a few drops from any bottle – in addition, this is dangerous.

To make water softer, the hardness must be removed, that is not possible with drops!! In any case, the KH (i.e. the temporary hardness=calcium) could be removed, for example with an acid, for example with hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid.

And if the KH is removed, then it is possible to continue with this acid to bring the PH value into the acid range. ABER: Since there is no acid buffer (the KH) anymore, the PH value also slips very quickly into a dangerously low range – success: the fish die from this acid fall.

(In addition, the water is not really softer, because the overall hardness remains unchanged and the destruction of the KH produces salt – the water becomes even more salty – many fish do not carry.)

Water really softens only with an osmosis plant or a full desalinator, or with distilled water or with purchased osmosis water. But this must also be done in the case of JEDEM partial water change – complicated and expensive in the long term.

Rainwater has the great disadvantage that you bring such uncontrolled pollutants into the water – please think about air pollution. These substances are dissolved in rainwater.

So take your tap water – this works for Neonsalmler wonderfully.

Good success

Daniela