It's NOT right!!! We spend a lot of time making our tanks look good and that stuff appears and makes it look yucky!!! 
Calcium Precipitation
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Unplug it, wait for it to cool, take out.of tank, soak in vinagar.
make a paste of lemon aid kool aid (unsweetened) 5% vinegar and household lemon juice (Lucy's brand) let paste sit an hour then scrub/wipe clean. Rinse well . I use this stuff to clean rust stains on concrete.
That recipe seems a bit redundant. Basically citric acid, acetic acid, sugar and more citric acid.
that is unfortunate, that was basically my last hope lol
the only thing thats helped is lids, i used to not run lids, and adding lids i think keeps evaporation to a minimum, im still cleaning the crust, but its not building up nearly as much
the only thing thats helped is lids, i used to not run lids, and adding lids i think keeps evaporation to a minimum, im still cleaning the crust, but its not building up nearly as much
Hot water and stainless steel or copper pads gets that mess off pretty good, too. Like steaming hot water so you have to be careful...I just cleaned the lids on the 225 today and replaced the adhesive hinges with new ones. The hot water also rolled up the old sticky adhesive.
So i didn't exactly give up hope lol
There are filter bags you can buy that soften the water, and from what I can see is, you can add aquarium salt to bring hardness back up to what you need for your fishes parameters, if you have a sump I would think you can throw it in when you need it and pull it out as you need as long as your testing your water with the master kit, but I have not fully confirmed what you would need to add if your water hardness is too low, if you really want to get nerdy you could find the water parameters of the fish you want to keep and replicate that.
! found out you can dilute your hard water with distilled water, and with RO water, but you would need a pretty heavy duty setup to be able to change the hundreds of gallons of water a month like some of the other people on here do, you could probably do a constant RO drip and then figure out how much tap water you need to add for your desired hardness and go from there
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There are filter bags you can buy that soften the water, and from what I can see is, you can add aquarium salt to bring hardness back up to what you need for your fishes parameters, if you have a sump I would think you can throw it in when you need it and pull it out as you need as long as your testing your water with the master kit, but I have not fully confirmed what you would need to add if your water hardness is too low, if you really want to get nerdy you could find the water parameters of the fish you want to keep and replicate that.
! found out you can dilute your hard water with distilled water, and with RO water, but you would need a pretty heavy duty setup to be able to change the hundreds of gallons of water a month like some of the other people on here do, you could probably do a constant RO drip and then figure out how much tap water you need to add for your desired hardness and go from there
How to Remove & Prevent White Residue on Aquarium Glass
If you notice a white residue on the top of your aquarium, you are probably dealing with hard water. Here is an inexpensive and easy removal method.
