Filtered / Reverse osmosis water versus tap water?

Question

After a big huge battle with fighting algea blooms 'n bacterial blooms i finally managed to get my aquarium crystal clear (By doing some pretty serious cleaning etc) and i i started thinking that maybe i should return to filling up my bucket with brita filtered water to prevent further bacterial etc blooms! so i was hoping to get advise from serious fish keeper 'n experts on what they feel is best? currently i'm using an Aquaclear 30 running a 20 gallon all glass fish tank ..

Thanks :) :)

Yeah i have two danios and one red eye tetra .. yep i kept the old sponge etc which kept all the nice beneficial bacteria inside but eventually i'll have to rinse that sponge and yep you bet! here we go again another bacterial bloom!

I buy brita water filters in bulk anyways .. and i use cycle during every water change (its awesome stuff) .. just that whenever i use filtered water the aquarium is perfectly sparkly clean .. hum :)

Answer 1

With a Brita filter you are removing nitrates and amonia which go to feed the algae but the major problem with algae is light. Filters lke Brita filters also remove the chlorine from tap water.Try to remove as much excess light as possible by making sure the tank is in a shadey position and reduce your electric lighting to 8 to 10 hours a day. When cleaning the filter pads only remove half of it at a time so keeping some of the nitifying bacteria and reducing the need to cycle the tank again.
Reverse osmosis fiteration removes almost all metal salts and leaves almost pure h2o , I find this quite sterile and would be of use in hard alkaline areas for adding to soft water aquarium and more for marine aquairiums to replace evaporation

Answer 2

You can do either. Tap is probably more convenient and cheaper. Try to cut down on the amount the light is on in the tank, I think 8 hours max, & hopefully you don't have it set up by a window with sunlight. I also hope you didn't destroy all your beneficial bacteria when you cleaned the tank. Did you keep the original filter or sponge? Otherwise your tank might start to cycle over again. Just be sure to do weekly water changes about 15-20%, depending on how many/type of fish you have until it gets stabilized. And don't overfeed. Takes time, but you'll get it. You also could add another filter on there, all my tanks have at least 2 filters on them. Again, depends on how much/types of fish, but you can't have too much filtration.

Answer 3

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fish world
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Answer 4

You could also buy distilled water.