Re: Will plant food increase hardness?

Rod Bacon wrote: 
I had added some plant food in the week prior to the test. Am I correct
in assuming that all the goodies in the plant food may have sent my
hardness through the roof?

I don't believe so. Water hardness is determined by the amount of calcium, magnesium, and carbonate ions in it. Plant food designed specifically for aquariums (at least the stuff I use, anyway) mainly has potassium and iron, with only minute traces of other miscellaneous elements.

- Logic316


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