View Single Post
  #10  
Old 01-06-2008, 05:36 AM
midgetwaiter midgetwaiter is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Calgary
Posts: 546
midgetwaiter is on a distinguished road
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Myka View Post
My tap water has a relatively low tds of 92 ppm. I used it years ago for my marine tanks, and always battled algae.
But what were those 92 ppm? You could find places that had almost all of the dissolved minerals being calcium and magnesium salts and others where 4 ppm of that is phosphate and silicate. That would cause algae problems. TDS is a cruddy way of determining water quality.
Reply With Quote