Anyone have any experience with using water softeners and planted tanks ? There is a lot of heresay out on the web about water softners and I would like to get some feedback from someone with actual real world experience. I've kept a large variety of fish in the softened water over the past few years with no noticible negative effects so most of what I'm reading about water softeners. Most of the concern about the softened water is concern about adding sodium to the water column and this gets turned into too much salt is bad for freshwater fish. However you are actually adding very little salt (NaCL) to the water you are actually adding sodium ions Na+. I'm more concerned about the stripping of the Ca+ and Mg+ ions. Am I going to need to supplement some Calcium into the water column ? Tom if you read this it might be the beginning of a good article.
Scott Hogsten
Scott Hogsten