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Originally Posted by Tom Barr
That sounds about right for a lot of the UK's water.
Hard and high NO3's, use a RO water filter if you drink/cook with that stuff.
It's fine for washing, showering etc.
You can also replace K2SO4 instead of KNO3 for the dosing, you have plenty of NO3 and the fish waste added to that ought to round out the week if you do 50% weekly changes, you might add say about 1/4 of the normal KNO3 dosing if things look okay and there's a fair amount of plant growth.
Regards,
Tom Barr
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It is very hard, I run all my cooking water and drinking water through a Britta water filter, which makes a huge difference. Id buy a proper RO unit, but Im on a water meter and the wastage of those things would cripple me in about 3 months!
I was really interested in the water report, although my test kit wont show up anything like that much NO3, which is annoying. Ive ordered some dry powders now, and Im going to do proper EI. Ive also ordered a proper pressurised CO2 kit! At long last! So I can get that stable to, it even comes with a solenoid which is great.
I have a cyanobacteria problem at the moment, its not massive now since Ive brought up the PO4 to a sensible level, (it was zero before). Once Ive got my dry ferts (today hopefully), Ill dose as suggested and turn the other light back on again and see if I can get things going. If that doesnt work Ill have to do a blackout I guess.
Thanks for all your help Tom