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Do to the logistics of using well water, that would be a major hassle, more so than using RO water and adding minerals. The only source of unsoftened water is the outdoor hose faucet. I live in northern Michigan, and I don't want to be running a hose from outside into my house every week in the...

I'm getting back into the hobby after a 10 year hiatus, and I am now in an area with hard well water (about 14 degrees GH and KH), and will be using RO/DI water, since I want soft water fish (cories, tetras, rasboras, gouramis, etc.) I have CO2, and bags of macro and micro dry ferts from years...

Whatever you're doing, the plants are really loving it! Looking good!

Agreed, looking good! When I used to have a planted tank with CO2, I was advised to put the CO2 on a timer, which I did. A solenoid wasn't expensive, as I recall. I put it on the same timer as the lights. Pumping CO2 into the water at night wastes CO2, because the plants won't use it in the...

I absolutely will not use the softened water for fish. Once we watered plants with it, and the plants died. So now we only use unsoftened water for watering plants :D

Thanks for the input everyone, lots to think about. Regarding the water, we are on well water, with a water softener. I know softened water is no good for fish. I could either use the hard water from the outdoor hose faucet, or RO water. One thing steering me away from hard water African...

Well, I have a 75g and a 29g tank, neither of which are setup. I've been out of the hobby for years, and I'm in the process of getting back into it. I want a fully planted tank, and the fish I'm looking at are mostly soft water fish, like cories, tetras, maybe a dwarf gourami or german blue...

I moved to an area with hard water, and will be using an RO filter to make water. I'm trying to figure out where to store the water. Are plastic storage totes suitable? Do I need to worry about things like BPA? Edit: I see in the other storage totes thread that Sterilite totes are food grade...