[AquaticLife] Water Well Question
A followup on recharging of filter on water well. First I was mistaken as to the kind of filter that was on my water well. Last year and in previous years when the well filter was recharged I was not keeping fish and did not pay that much attention to what was being done to the well. It turns out that the filter is not an iron filter after all, but is a acid neutralizing filter. It is recharged by adding fresh limestone that is slowly dissolved by the acid water in my area. I am on the border line for the need of an iron filter. The filter was recharged Thursday so I waited a couple of days to let the water stabilize and tested it today, Saturday. The pH out of the tap was 7.4. This is consistent with my aquarium water witch is 7.4-7.5. The KH was previously 6 dKH, it went to 7 dKH. The GH was previously 7 dGH, it went to 10 dGH. The water did not change that much since the filter had not completely depleted the existing limestone. It will probably stabilize to be close to what it previously was. Jimmy McHaney Husser, LA 70442
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