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06-15-2006, 11:00 AM
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and TDS include Dissolved organic compounds (DOC's) which plants can't utilize.
Also keep in mind that in the wild, the water is constantly being renewed from rain, snow melting...the natural flow of things. We need w/c to mimic this behavior. There are ways to do heavily planted tanks with hardly any fish, where you only top off with lightly reconstituted RO water (to prevent Kh/Gh buildup), and only do a water change a couple times a year. But its a pretty big undertaking, and I know I wouldn't have the patience to do something like that.
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