Re: [Killietalk] Re: Damping back RO

[john nicholson <nicholsons_discus at yahoo_com>]

Not really.  Discus really do not need soft water to be healthy.  In
fact young discus will grow much faster in hard water.  They will not
succussfully spawn but they will be healthy.

-john

P.S.  Not talking about wild discus, just domesticated ones.

--- Joe Scanlan <drkillinut at charter_net> wrote:

> Your water must be very low in mineral content to start with.?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "john nicholson" <nicholsons_discus at yahoo_com>
> To: "george morris" <mikron7 at earthlink_net>; "killifish discussion
> list" 
> <killietalk at aka_org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 8:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Re: Damping back RO
> 
> 
> > Although I do raise a few types of Killifish I am mainly a discus
> > breeder so I have changed 50% of the water in all of my growout
> tanks
> > for several years.  About 2 years ago I got tired of watching about
> 250
> > gallons of R/O waste water go down the drain everynight so I
> drilled an
> > overflow into one of my 120 gallon tanks and re-routed the waste
> water
> > though there.  It worked so well I drilled my other 120 and both of
> my
> > 75 gallon growouts.  I alternate which tanks gets the "flush" each
> > night.  R/O waste water seems to be great for discus and I would
> assume
> > it would be good for killifish also.
> >
> > -john
> >
> > --- george  morris <mikron7 at earthlink_net> wrote:
> >
> >> On a related topic, I don't think I've ever seen a recirculating
> RO
> >> ssytem.
> >> I seems to me that it wouldn't take much of a pump to recirculate
> >> water from
> >> a sump ( like a garbage can ) instead of dumping all that tap
> water
> >> down the
> >> drain.  This might be of particular interest to you folks in the
> >> Southwest
> >> Has anyone seem anything like that?
> >>
> >> George Morris
> >>
> >>
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