What the heck do I do with KH 12 water?

My water is softened so my KH is 15, GH is 0 - 1 and pH is about 7.4 after CO2. Can you get your hands on some softened water? Then again, lugging around kilolitres of water every week is not an attractive proposition.

Blow the wad on compressed CO2 and crank it up? Once you layed down the big bucks for the initial set-up, the rest is fairly cheap. C'mon Starry, you know you've always thought about going compressed. :D
 
I think you missed the important key point that I'm a STUDENT. Considering I live on my own as well, it's hard enough to make ends meet without spending $$ on compressed CO2. Besides, my landlord might evict me :) The seond reason - I would be the laughing stock of AC for going pressurized on a 10-gal. And third - my CO2 is great now, thank you very much :)
I was gone over the long weekend and I can already tell that things are looking up. I even have a tiny white root on my beloved Barclaya that's supposedly in a coma :)

Originally posted by Matak
My water is softened so my KH is 15, GH is 0 - 1 and pH is about 7.4 after CO2. Can you get your hands on some softened water? Then again, lugging around kilolitres of water every week is not an attractive proposition.

Blow the wad on compressed CO2 and crank it up? Once you layed down the big bucks for the initial set-up, the rest is fairly cheap. C'mon Starry, you know you've always thought about going compressed. :D
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Starry, there's no reason for you to go pressurized with a 10 gallon tank. How far are you away from your old place? The water there was softer, right? Can't you import some of that water, say 5 gallons a week? That would be a 50% water change in that little tank and would aid in your parameters, at least until your next move. Or am I missing something here?
Or couldn't you add an extra bottle of CO2 and see how it affects your numbers? Never thought I'd be suggesting 2 bottles for a 10 gal. tank.
Len
 
Originally posted by Starry
I hate Waterloo!!!!!!!!!
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Isn't that what Napoleon said?

There are a lot of things that you can do with water that is so full of Carbonates...but I see that you are trying to make do until you move back, so converting a whole bunch of tanks isn't worth it...still, there could be some really nice Tanganyikan tanks with some Val and Java Moss in it for you...
 
Awww...but it's a problem for us to solve, and you took it away from us! :(

Glad to read that the CO2 is fine...I better read the whole entire thread next time, I guess!
 
If you run an airhose in your water for 24 hours before using it, you may find the atmospheric CO2 has diffused into your CO2-depleted tapwater, and that the pH has dropped and stabilized. (Your Waterloo water company apparently "shocks" the water with slaked lime, what the reefkeepers call "kalkwasser.")

Then you can use it in the tank with less struggle, no? As it is, your limed tapwater is just sucking up all the CO2 your diffuser can produce...
 
Originally posted by wetmanNY
If you run an airhose in your water for 24 hours before using it, you may find the atmospheric CO2 has diffused into your CO2-depleted tapwater, and that the pH has dropped and stabilized. (Your Waterloo water company apparently "shocks" the water with slaked lime, what the reefkeepers call "kalkwasser.")

Then you can use it in the tank with less struggle, no? As it is, your limed tapwater is just sucking up all the CO2 your diffuser can produce...
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Well, I haven't done a water change in about a week and a half, and my pH is about 7.4, KH 12. It's constantly aerated, because I'm using a sponge filter. And this is with my new CO2 diffuser. I really doubt if it would go lower than this without added CO2. The lowest I got it before was around 7.8 or so. I have to fix up the diffuser a bit now. It's a bell-shaped one with a sponge top, but it's not really attached to anything so it floats onto its side and a lot of the CO2 just rolls out. I have to put a suction cup on it when I get around to it, then I'll be set. Even as it is, the plants have been growing like mad, which isn't necessarily good because then I have to find the time to trim :) Well, thanks for the suggestions guys.
 
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