Reply With QuoteHey bro, correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't water used to offset evaporation be with as little dissolved solids in it? Adding mineral plus to top up water seems counter intuitive, it should be used for water changes only.
I have a bottle of mineral plus that i hardly utilise and just thought of using it whenever i do top up of distilled water to offset evaporation. I top up a 1.5 litre bottle each time and would like to ask what is the corresponding dosage of mineral plus i should add for each bottle of distilled water i add into the tank?
I have no TDS meter nor gH/pH test kit on hand though.
Thank you in advance for all thr advice.
Hey bro, correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't water used to offset evaporation be with as little dissolved solids in it? Adding mineral plus to top up water seems counter intuitive, it should be used for water changes only.
Mineral plus will increase the gH of the water, so be wary.
Like what the bros above said, evaporation should be compensated with distilled or RO water or GH will creep up.
As a rule of thumb, 2 caps of Mineral plus in 100L of water will increase GH by 1.
sorry to hijack the thread.Originally Posted by Navanod
i'm using RO water for water change, but before i pump the water in from the aged tank. i'll add fertilizer then mineral plus to tds 130. so my tds is always around 130 even after water change. but by doing so, will it increase the GH?
Eh just checking, so you age the RO water right, and then adjust the new TDS before adding to the tank? If that's the case I think shouldn't be much of a problem.
If the TDS of the water you use to change water with is the same as the tank's, GH should not increase...UNLESS, you pour in more water than you remove during waterchange
Posting Permissions
Bookmarks