tap water conditioner

[Sky042]

Not sure about this. in my house both hot an cold water supplies run through copper pipes to get to the tap, so how can it make a difference if it has been through a copper hot water tank?

I asked a chemist ( a friend of mine) to to do a water test on tap only water. it came out on the hard side but other than the usual crap the water companies put in the water it was very good. Lead solder and copper in the supply, if i understand this right are not very good for us either.

actually the problem is sedmentary minerals in your hot water heater. Anyone who's ever flushed their hot water heater(thats what the little spigot on the bottom is for) can tell you lots of nasty things are in there. See it's actually very similar to the problem you can run into with a fish tank. If you fill a tank and then it evaporates then you refil and keep repeating this process the minerals that make up your GH never leave the tank and you keep adding more. SO in the long run you can make your tank water very hard if you didn't do water changes.

Same goes in your hot water heater. the water flows in gets heated and stagnates. Lots of the minerals kinda separate from the water and accumulate on the bottome of the heater. when the water leaves the tank to be used it doesnt take the minerals with it. It leaves them behind. then new water is added and the cycle repeats. So the water comming from your hot water tank can be much harder than the water comming from your cold water source which is why hot water for fish tank's isn't reccomended. if you're mixing up a large batch of water I can tell you 1 pot of boiling water (from a kettle or pot) mixed into a large bucket of cold water can easily raise it to the proper temperature.

 

[gixer]

as for boiling a kettle to do a water change, its hardly a few times is it if u have a large tank and u are intending to do a large water change..

how so... a kettle full of water does a bucket. whats a few kettles of water/?

i change over 300ltrs a week and i can manage it... theres no way i will put the muck from my hot tap in my tanks

 

[gixer]

and as for whoever said your adding limescale from your kettle...lmao

like i said....try to have a look in an old water tank sometime.