Parting water inhabitants, modern people face one very big problem – hardness of water. The increased percentage of salts of alkaline-earth metals perniciously affects on representatives of the majority of species of fish and other aquarian inhabitants. There are several ways of softening of water in an aquarium without infliction of harm to its inhabitants.
It is required to you
- the distilled water, elodeya or a rogolistnik, ion-exchange pitches
Instruction
1. For softening of hard tap water in an aquarium you will need to do a number of the simple actions (in a complex or individually) provided below. Buy such plants as elodeya or a rogolistnik and plant them in aquarian soil. The result of their activity reduces concentration of salts of calcium and magnesium that leads to considerable softening of water in an aquarium.
2. Dilute hard tap water soft distilled or rain. It is possible to buy soft water in pharmacies, pet-shops or in poultry market. Rain water before addition in an aquarium should be filtered and purified from garbage. It is necessary to dilute depending on rigidity of the water, as a rule, it is 1 liter of hard water on 2 liters distilled.
3. Establish for water treatment a membrane of a reverse osmosis on your aquarium. This device is on sale in pet-shops. This processing is capable to save (to purify) water from various unnecessary impurity. Buy also in pet-shop special ion-exchange pitches which are intended for softening of water in an aquarium.
4. Boil water and cool it before adding to an aquarium. It will allow to soften water in a certain degree, however extent of mitigation in this case is low. Such way in a case with strongly hard water will be hardly suitable. It is applied, as a rule, in combination with other methods of softening of aquarian water.
5. Buy in pet-shop waters, necessary for mitigation, in an aquarium special chemicals. Such medicines do not influence at all safe healthy life of small fishes but only remove from salt water which do water hard. The condition of mineral substances in water when using these chemicals remains the same. The Wednesday cleaned in this way is favorable for life of all water inhabitants.