thenamespo Posted July 31, 2018 Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 Just wondering how many of you guys keep your TB in tap water? I kept mine for over a year and it seems I'm one of the only ones since everyones always talkin about RO water If you do keep yours in tap water, are you successful in breeding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyzazz Posted July 31, 2018 Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 Remineralized RO for me, my tap is way too far off for Taiwan Bees and most any shrimp for that matter! What are your tap water parameters? Are you on a well or on a municipal water source? Buffered/active substrate or inert? What kind of Taiwan Bees are you keeping? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenamespo Posted July 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 My pH comes out at 7.2 and I use ADA to buffer it down to 6. I have 8 tanks right now with CBS PRL Black/Red zebras mix tibee tank BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyzazz Posted July 31, 2018 Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 Do you know your gH, kH and TDS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenamespo Posted July 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 Haven’t checked my gH&kH since I started but my TDS is 140 in my tibees and around 200 in my CBS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyzazz Posted July 31, 2018 Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 If it works, then it works. Some of us are blessed with good tap water, others are not. Are you on a well or municipal water source? If you are on "City Water" I think you're playing with fire. If they flush the system or add something to the water that the shrimp don't' like, you run the risk of losing everything. Just something to be aware of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenamespo Posted July 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 Yeah I been on city water, a few locals here been breeding CRS for 5+ years and they told me tap is fine so I just did it and stuck with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcrafted Posted July 31, 2018 Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 I have a hard enough time getting my bees and pintos to successfully breed in remineralized r/o water with ideal parameters. I wouldn't trust the seasonal fluctuations in both carbonates and minerals from our tap source.... not to mention whatever other "additives" they may add. I have seen a few posts on the forums where people have mentioned keeping CRS in neo parameters...or let's just say tap water with a pinch of cal/mag when needed. I assume they are working with fairly soft tap water to begin with. I'm not brave enough to try with my bees and pintos, even though we have somewhat soft water ourselves (KH 1-2 GH 2-3 and a TDS of 50-60). One good thing about our tap source is my r/o membranes last for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenamespo Posted July 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 I guess everyone here does use RO water for bees! Since I been keeping them in tap, I haven’t had deaths relating to water issues. I don’t even remember the last time I saw a dead shrimp in my tanks. And they breed fairly quick, though it did take 6 months for my tibee tanks to breed. CBS and PRL bred like rabbits though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwin_the_elder Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 Well lucky you then I would really love to have a natural source of water as the water here in Singapore his pretty heavily treated 😕 pH in my water is through the roof (7.6++). Didn't even bother measuring my kH too The only plus side is that the water is relatively clean? (TDS 40-50) so it doesn't really exhaust my RODI too quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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