Water Conditoner for QT tank with r/o water

The Rockster

The Rockster

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Hi,
Do I need to add any water conditioner to a QT tank with r/o water, before adding new fish? I do realize, I have to cycle the water first. I am new to r/o water, but have read that there is nothing in it. I have Equilibrium for my planted tank, but after reading the instructions, think its only for that, and not a fish only QT tank. We plan on have Discus and Angels.
Thanks
 
water conditioner no, but minerals yes.

Kent RO-Right.
 
I was looking into that. Only questions are:
Planning on buying Discus and Angels, and according to what I read, salt is not good for them and Kent RO-Right has salt in it.
Instructions with the R/O said that Seachem makes Replenish for remineralizion. However can not find this anywhere, on the Seachem site. or anywhere else.................
 
Discus do not require R/O water...most Discus are now bred in harder water, and people have successfully kept Discus in hard/high pH water (pH of 8.2).

If you already have the R/O unit however, you can just mix R/O with your tap water to give it some mineral content (unless there is some reason you don't want to use your tap water?)
 
Thanks for responding.
I am planning on a planted discus tank.............r/o water is the way to go.
This is recycled tap water water here..........its highly chlorinated and hard.
Jack Wattley (the father of Discus), is 20 miles from here, he uses r/o. Al's SuperAquarium uses r/o in its 200 tanks( 5 miles away).
When purchasing Discus one should match the water perimeters of the breeders. Juvenile Discus can survive in higher PH. Mating pairs and older fish show the effects of bad water perimeters (high ph). Not spawning, not growing to potential, and bad coloration are some of the results.
Just our opinion. Then again........we don't care for the Python water change system either. (People wonder why they have dead fish after the water change.)
 
Him...use a python on my water changes from the tap in all the discus tanks, with Prime, and never had an issue. Odd.
 
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