Am I over feeding?

[AquamanE]

I use tap water unfortunately. But never had a problem with algea till now. My nitrites are reading 5ppm.

:horse::horse:

You need RO/DI Water. PERIOD.

 

[Reefing Madness]

:horse::horse:

You need RO/DI Water. PERIOD.

Fortunately, no, you don't...... Needing to run RO is a personal preference only.

 

[twelvefive]

I have 9 fish including two tangs and a foxface Rabbitfish and they don't eat a complete cube of mysis.

 

[Eienna]

Fortunately, no, you don't...... Needing to run RO is a personal preference only.

Close. Personal preference which is sometimes necessitated by local water conditions. Hemet, for instance, is highly unpredictable; fine one day, deadly another. No experienced keeper here uses tap water, even for FW tanks.

 

[Reefing Madness]

Close. Personal preference which is sometimes necessitated by local water conditions. Hemet, for instance, is highly unpredictable; fine one day, deadly another. No experienced keeper here uses tap water, even for FW tanks.

AH, but I argue, because I did for years, and was accomplished at doing so. So it is a matter of preference. I used AZ water, and this stuff is very hard, and full of garbage. Now, I didn't keep SPS, but Softies didn't mind it, nor do Palys.

 

[Eienna]

AH, but I argue, because I did for years, and was accomplished at doing so. So it is a matter of preference. I used AZ water, and this stuff is very hard, and full of garbage. Now, I didn't keep SPS, but Softies didn't mind it, nor do Palys.

I'm not kidding. Tap water one day - it had been fine until then, for several months, and I KNOW I used my water conditioner (Seachem Prime) properly as usual - well, I was doing a water change as usual, but this time by the time the tank was full again, I started seeing dead fish. Bam, bam, bam, one fish after another was belly-up with seconds between. The only reason any survived at all was that I had a quarantine set up that I had not yet changed the water in, and I started literally shoveling every fish I could as fast as I could into that tank. I lost about 80% of a fully-stocked tank. Just to make sure it wasn't something about the affected tank itself, I filled a completely different tank and placed my three hardiest, least-liked fish in it. Same result. They freaked out and two died before I could get them out. After that I learned that I was not the only one in the area this has happened to, both then and in the past, in this town. I cried the whole time and thankfully I had someone I could scream for to help me remove the fish or I'd have lost all but maybe three of them. Mind you, this was freshwater. None died once they were in the QT water except a couple who were already too far gone.

I will NEVER, EVER, EVER use tap water again. And I try not to drink it either.