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Water Softner (rainsoft) with Reverse Osmoesis | 28 comments (28 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Wow! 32 degrees hardness would give you (none / 0) (#5)
by unclescott on Tue Mar 01, 2005 at 02:15:36 PM PST

water with something like 544 PPM! That would be lethel to guppies after a while. (See that little Winter Mystery Death blurb.) That is a greater hardness than the Great Rift Lakes, though they have a high carbonate hardness which may bring the total TDS (sort of the same as electrical conductivity) to close to your well water.

See http://badmanstropicalfish.com/afcichlids.html

That's a very good water softener if hardness is 1 !

Certainly you can keep fish, but you will have to fiddle with the water. And I realize that your first priorities are your family and farm.

I hope (as a history & social studies teacher, not a chemist) this is some help. Wish that all you had to do was turn on the faucet and fill the aquarium. ;)

All the best again!
u.s.

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Water Softner (rainsoft) with Reverse Osmoesis | 28 comments (28 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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