Is soft water safe? Any q on python water changer..

[NearMeBettas]

Hay! I've been looking into getting the python water change and full system. I see people hooking it upto there bathroom sink, draining it, and then filling it. I only problem is that the only sink that hasn't been through our water softener is in the kitchen. It has no hot or cold controls on it, and I think it's 2 small for any of there adapters. Is it safe to use straight softened water? If so is it safe after I've been using hard water (400+ppm)? Anyone have experience with their python system? Does it work even just to empty the tank?

 

[Freshfishguy]

Hay! I've been looking into getting the python water change and full system. I see people hooking it upto there bathroom sink, draining it, and then filling it. I only problem is that the only sink that hasn't been through our water softener is in the kitchen. It has no hot or cold controls on it, and I think it's 2 small for any of there adapters. Is it safe to use straight softened water? If so is it safe after I've been using hard water (400+ppm)? Anyone have experience with their python system? Does it work even just to empty the tank?

I love my python. It doesn’t work with my sink or bathtub, so I actually hook mine up to my shower. See what’s up with your bathtubs and showers, one of them could work. I’m not 100% sure, but I believe it’s generally highly discouraged to use water that has been softened for aquariums. There are a lot of threads on this already though — here’s a good one for reference on that Use water from water softener | Freshwater Aquarium Discussion Forum | 440403.

If you were to transition from very hard water to soft water or using water in general with very different parameters, you would probably want to do no more than 50% water changes, but even possibly 30% to prevent drastically altering the parameters of the water. The most important thing would be to make sure you don’t swing the KH in your tank more than 2 points because doing so can negatively impact livestocks’ osmotic regulation.

 

[CindiL]

Hi, your KH will be the same in both the hard and softened water but your GH will be absolutely zero which isn’t a good thing. You’ll need to replenish those minerals, calcium, magnesium with something like SeaChem Replenish or Equilibrium and SeaChem Fresh Trace.

I don’t use a python so can’t speak to that.