What's used to soften the water?

Is it salt? If so, it works by giving off sodium ions into
the water. I'm personally not comfortable about free
sodium ions in the water, though it might not be a problem.

Hard water is not much of a problem, but exec nutrients
are, and if it is city water, you get to guess what they
might one day decide to ad to the water.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



nacree wrote on 10/10/2006 2:54 PM:
Also, I forgot to add that I put in softened water in to the aquarium.
I was going to add hard water from a faucet outside till I realized
that that was going to be hard water and I put in soft water. Now I
read that I should put in hard water and not soft. Is that true? Is
that a big mistake or am I ok for now with the soft water and from here
on out use the hard water. Any ideas??

Thanks!