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Old 04-03-2008, 01:14 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by fishbone View Post
Yes, I have a water softner but the only thing it does is changes my KH and GH from "ridiculously off the chart" to "I can live with this". My water is still hard with a pH of 8.4
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The Readers Digest Version is that the salt which you are putting into your water softener is causing the algae problem.


fb: The long version is:

What we commonly refer to as salt is NaCl.

The salts which you are putting into your water softner are principally NaCl and KCl but very minor amounts of RbCl are also present.

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