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When using water conditioner which is the right method:

pouring in the conditioner into the water or the other way round?

i dont think theres a right or wrong way here..but, the usual is pouring the conditioner to the water....but other way around will work as well..the only thing though which u should be more concern, make sure that the water temp of the one ur going to add is close to the temp of the tank's water.

Thanks tankie. Just a thought that I wanted to clear out. Either method works for the water conditioner.

I add mine to the water change bucket before I add the water, that way the adding of the water to the bucket helps mix the conditioner even more, especially helpful if you're using powdered water conditioner.

If you add it to the tank after you've added the new water most conditioners reccomend that you add the ammount of conditioner for the tank volume rather than the ammount you changed. Doing it the former is cheaper than the latter. Granted a few drops doesnt make all that much of a difference ...but still .

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I dump it in the bucket while waiting for the bucket to fill. As of this week though I should be completely switched over to ro water so no chlorine or heavy metals to worry about. Not sure what to do with the rest of this huge bottle of Prime.

Other than the Excell in the Betta Tank all my additives are added into the 10Lt bucket when I do the water change.

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I should be completely switched over to ro water

What kind of fish do you have?

My list of fish is getting fairly long. The 90g is almost stocked, the 2 5gallon tanks are ready to stock, and the 20g is holding a few fish while they grow up. I've got congo tetras, threadfins, 2 gourami species, emperor tetras, cories, 2 pleco species, farlowella, do I still have any otos left?, guppies, and I always forget the shrimp. I'm also using the water for the tank at my mom's house with angelfish, yoyo loaches, and a betta. The swordtails died off without really any symptoms and the only thing off on water tests was the fact the ph of the wellwater there shot up to 9.0 again. Although I would think the yoyos would be the first to go and the swordtails would be quite hardy toward the hardwater.

what kind of reclaim chemistry do you use?

i like RO right by kent marine

I thought seachem's equilibrium looked much better for adding back in what plants need than just using ro right but I disliked seachem's buffering system. Equilibrium only raises gh and doesn't contain any buffers so I bought kent's ph stable which is a mix of carbonic acid salts. I like having seperate control of those 2 things and so far it's been pretty simple. I mix in 1/4th scoop of ph stable and 1/2scoop of equilibrium per 2cups of water and keep 16cups mixed in a container under the stand. 1 cup per gallon gives me a kh of 80ppm(4dkh), ph of 7.2, and gh of 4dh. Big improvement from the tapwater.

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