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harif87 · 12-24-2006, 11:55 PM

yeah i dont see any reason to add any water softner, the water in the ocean is fairly hard and therefore bufferd at pH around 8.2, adding water softner will not only cause your pH to drop, but it will fluctuate which is dangerous. The key to this hobby is consistency. You dont want any sudden changes. I would get rid of the water softner via small water changes. Either that or do a large water change and re-acclimate your fish n inverts.

About the potassium... how much did you add? In salt mixes therese something like 400 ppm of K found in its composition, so i wouldnt say its useless. But then aggain it also depends on how much more you added

12-24-2006, 11:55 PM	#3
harif87 Minor Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Age: 21 Posts: 995	yeah i dont see any reason to add any water softner, the water in the ocean is fairly hard and therefore bufferd at pH around 8.2, adding water softner will not only cause your pH to drop, but it will fluctuate which is dangerous. The key to this hobby is consistency. You dont want any sudden changes. I would get rid of the water softner via small water changes. Either that or do a large water change and re-acclimate your fish n inverts. About the potassium... how much did you add? In salt mixes therese something like 400 ppm of K found in its composition, so i wouldnt say its useless. But then aggain it also depends on how much more you added __________________ sorry for beating you senseless "The human torch was denied a bank loan" Last edited by harif87; 12-24-2006 at 11:58 PM.