Ok, this one is a little bit more on topic... as to the question of starting water quality. My answer has been to build myself a Deionization system. You can see the left chamber is just a carbon filter, the middle one is the cation? and the right is the anion chamber? I get the two mixed up, haven't taken chem in a while. Anyways, I got a bunch of used "tap water purifier" cartridges from aquarium people when they were finished with them, and made the system from that. The tap water purifier is nothing more than a mixed bed deion chamber with a little carbon at one end. So anyways, the water makes me about 20 gallons of 20ppm water per recharge, and probably 40 gallons of 50ppm water per recharge. To me that 20ppm is a sufficient starting point. Thoughts on water? I'd really like to hear some of y'alls plans for making your nutrient soup. Ocelaris |