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thesoul2008 said:
with your float valve do you leave the water on so your tank is always full?
I only ask this because i loose a lot of water every week due to evaporation.
if so how do you know how much conditioner to use?
i have been thinking about doing this for a long time but not knowing how much conditioner to add has always worried me
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I don't leave the water on , I used to worry about an accidental flood all the time. I have it running to a closet where it's connected to what used to be my R.O. . I just removed the R.O. membrane and have the 3 sections of the filter in use with filters and carbon . I usually top it off once a week in between water changes by adding a little prime . When it was R.O. water I left it on all the time to top itself off.
 
Here it is. R/O , reverse osmosis, pure water .

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found it LOL so that takes EVERYTHING bad out of the water so i guess then there really is no need for conditioner with one of these :) mmmmmmmmmm might have to get me one
 
the thing with R/O water is that all the good minerals and such that your fish need are removed too, so you need to put those back into the water before you add the R/O water to your tank. i myself don't use R/O, just good old tap water and dechlorinator.
 
I do have a bunch of them Cam . Also in regard to the R/O , it got to expensive to keep adding R/O right to the water so I switched to regular tap water .Using prime water conditioner is a lot cheaper. I originally got the R/O unit for when I had my full blown hard corals. Dosing calcium and regular water changes with sea salts added everything needed back to the water. Also it's alot faster to do water changes now, the R/O unit took all day to fill the tank. Also Cam , if you look at my last pic of my tank you can see a couple of the spotted ones. I have about 10.
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Beemer sure is cute ky.
So did everyone have a nice 4th?
Had a nice cook out here and some fire works last night and went to a poker run earlier in the day. I think I am going to have to try and make my little dog a pair of ear plugs, fire works and the sound of gun shots just scares him to death. Poor little thing just trembles.

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