Hi everyone,
This is a question to all you experts out there.
I own a 29g freshwater heavily planted tank, low tech, with 6 harlequin rasboras (so far, stocking slowly) running for about 6 months now. It's going to have a soft water SE Asian fish and plants, pretty much a SE Asian biotope. My tap water is a stable 7.6 hardwater with quite a bit of phosphate in it as evidenced by the battle I have been fighting with algae in my tank .
All my time as an aquarist I have been using dechlorinator conditioned tap water in all my tanks, and I do own a Coralife ro/di unit that I haven't found the time, to set up and figure out, but I figured it should do the trick in this situation.
Now my decision is to use 100% rodi water with a comercial buffer. The problem is that most buffers I've seen on the market have PHOSPHATE as the primary buffering agent. Can you guys tell me what you do on your planted tanks? Do you use a comercial buffer w/o phosphate that I haven't been able to find or do you alchemy your own formula?
Thanks you all! Cheers
This is a question to all you experts out there.
I own a 29g freshwater heavily planted tank, low tech, with 6 harlequin rasboras (so far, stocking slowly) running for about 6 months now. It's going to have a soft water SE Asian fish and plants, pretty much a SE Asian biotope. My tap water is a stable 7.6 hardwater with quite a bit of phosphate in it as evidenced by the battle I have been fighting with algae in my tank .
All my time as an aquarist I have been using dechlorinator conditioned tap water in all my tanks, and I do own a Coralife ro/di unit that I haven't found the time, to set up and figure out, but I figured it should do the trick in this situation.
Now my decision is to use 100% rodi water with a comercial buffer. The problem is that most buffers I've seen on the market have PHOSPHATE as the primary buffering agent. Can you guys tell me what you do on your planted tanks? Do you use a comercial buffer w/o phosphate that I haven't been able to find or do you alchemy your own formula?
Thanks you all! Cheers