Yeah -- although for the time being I've spent far and above what I was planning. I had some other people suggest these.
I got my hands on some PRIME to detoxify the ammonia and have got my levels back in check.
I'm hoping to stock the tank with enough plant life to filter out most of the junk naturally.
OH, also.. on your suggestion (I think it was you who suggested it anyhow) I googled for local aquarium groups and found the Boston Aquarium Group. They have monthly meetings right over by the Aquarium and even have a big auction where you can get stuff cheap. There is a meeting tonight that is open to the public. I'm tempted to try and swing by to grab more java fern and some moss for my tank.
Adding chems to remove chems < Removing chems entirely
You can dick around at home depot and build yourself a filtration system through trial and error OR you can just get one that someone has already designed and marketed. I'd suggest a standalone DI system at least. You could even do a multi-stage filter + DI if you wanted to go DIY. I'm not sure if Home Despot stocks DI cartridges or not but I know they usually have the housings, fittings, tubing and drinking water pre-filters (floss & carbon).
I went to college at Salem State and lived in one of their two older dorm halls (built c. 1965) my first year. In an attempt to make my prison cell of a room a little friendlier, I had a big spider plant. During it's first couple of months there I watered it from the tap. The thing very quickly started to die back. I experimented with more water, less water, more sun. Finally I started to bring back poland springs bottles bought on my dining hall card to water it and it finally bounced back. Cheapskate that I was, I kept drinking from the tap ;p
My home town also had enough copper in the water supply that sinks and drinking fountains regularly ended up with green streaks.
Hah, yeah, nice that you'd make sure your plant was drinking unpolluted water but you continued to gulp down whatever caused it to recoil in horror. lol ;)
Copper was one of my primary concerns actually. I want to keep Red Cherry Shrimp and copper content will not allow for proper development of their shells.
yeah, copper is toxic to invertebrates. When I get new fish I have to be careful to keep as much of the water they came in OUT of my system as i can because the Fish Only systems they are usually kept are treated with and actively running copper to kill parasites.
Pretty much. That's the well that my parents and I got our drinking water from in the late 70s and early 80s, before they shut it down. My brother was born in '82, so he doesn't have folks following him around checking up on him. Good times, good times...
everyone loves feces water.kphtJune 15 2009, 20:30:59 UTC
people who use disposable diapers? yeah. you're supposed to shake the solids into the toilet (it's in that fine print) so that your charming spawn's feces doesn't contaminate the groundwater near wherever your mountains of diapers end up residing. obviously, no one does this. ever.
ours are cloth, so they get treated at the same facility that treats the human pewp. call me a hippie or whatever, but i save tons of cash AND i don't poison people! win.
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I got my hands on some PRIME to detoxify the ammonia and have got my levels back in check.
I'm hoping to stock the tank with enough plant life to filter out most of the junk naturally.
OH, also.. on your suggestion (I think it was you who suggested it anyhow) I googled for local aquarium groups and found the Boston Aquarium Group. They have monthly meetings right over by the Aquarium and even have a big auction where you can get stuff cheap. There is a meeting tonight that is open to the public. I'm tempted to try and swing by to grab more java fern and some moss for my tank.
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Adding chems to remove chems < Removing chems entirely
You can dick around at home depot and build yourself a filtration system through trial and error OR you can just get one that someone has already designed and marketed. I'd suggest a standalone DI system at least. You could even do a multi-stage filter + DI if you wanted to go DIY. I'm not sure if Home Despot stocks DI cartridges or not but I know they usually have the housings, fittings, tubing and drinking water pre-filters (floss & carbon).
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I went to college at Salem State and lived in one of their two older dorm halls (built c. 1965) my first year. In an attempt to make my prison cell of a room a little friendlier, I had a big spider plant. During it's first couple of months there I watered it from the tap. The thing very quickly started to die back. I experimented with more water, less water, more sun. Finally I started to bring back poland springs bottles bought on my dining hall card to water it and it finally bounced back.
Cheapskate that I was, I kept drinking from the tap ;p
My home town also had enough copper in the water supply that sinks and drinking fountains regularly ended up with green streaks.
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Copper was one of my primary concerns actually. I want to keep Red Cherry Shrimp and copper content will not allow for proper development of their shells.
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When I get new fish I have to be careful to keep as much of the water they came in OUT of my system as i can because the Fish Only systems they are usually kept are treated with and actively running copper to kill parasites.
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http://www.epa.gov/region2/superfund/npl/0202228c.pdf
Read that and then ask me about the guy that calls me every ten years or so to see if I've developed any health problems =/
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"So uh, hey... it's been ten years.. any.. you know.. evil second heads pop up?"
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ours are cloth, so they get treated at the same facility that treats the human pewp. call me a hippie or whatever, but i save tons of cash AND i don't poison people! win.
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hello worst job ever. (one of them, anyway.)
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