GH Pillow Recharging

[drsteeeve]

Hi all, first post, hopefully not a silly question.

I have very hard water, KH and GH, was looking how to reduce and came across the API softener pillow which as far as I can tell seems to just be a bag of DI resin.

On further reading I found cheaper sources of the resin bags on Amazon giving 16x the amount of resin for £20 which seem like it may be a good option, the only question is the recharging of the resin.

The recommended method uses aquarium salt (sodium chloride) but I have seen that home water softeners can also use potassium chloride as the recharge solution, which then will give us usfull potassium in the tank for the plants rather than adding sodium.

Anyone have any experience using this and recharging with potassium by soaking a pillow/bag of the resin?

Thanks!!

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Hi all, first post, hopefully not a silly question.

I have very hard water, KH and GH, was looking how to reduce and came across the API softener pillow which as far as I can tell seems to just be a bag of DI resin.

On further reading I found cheaper sources of the resin bags on Amazon giving 16x the amount of resin for £20 which seem like it may be a good option, the only question is the recharging of the resin.

The recommended method uses aquarium salt (sodium chloride) but I have seen that home water softeners can also use potassium chloride as the recharge solution, which then will give us usfull potassium in the tank for the plants rather than adding sodium.

Anyone have any experience using this and recharging with potassium by soaking a pillow/bag of the resin?

Thanks!!

Are you working on a saltwater aquarium?

 

[z4chburris]

Hi all, first post, hopefully not a silly question.

I have very hard water, KH and GH, was looking how to reduce and came across the API softener pillow which as far as I can tell seems to just be a bag of DI resin.

On further reading I found cheaper sources of the resin bags on Amazon giving 16x the amount of resin for £20 which seem like it may be a good option, the only question is the recharging of the resin.

The recommended method uses aquarium salt (sodium chloride) but I have seen that home water softeners can also use potassium chloride as the recharge solution, which then will give us usfull potassium in the tank for the plants rather than adding sodium.

Anyone have any experience using this and recharging with potassium by soaking a pillow/bag of the resin?

Thanks!!

I’ve used the gH pillow from API but only in freshwater tanks. It’s really affective and the salt they sell recharges it as advertised. I tend to use the buy once cry once line of thinking. It’s better to use proven methods if your goal is to find something that works both safely and effectively.