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[RKRamos]

Ha ha ha its all good we all learn here! You can hook up a whole house carbon filter to any water line and that's all you need to do to provide good water. Here is the link on how to do it. You might want to read it all to get an understanding. I think I posted pictures on that thread as well. Don't use river water.
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Awesome! Thanks, I'm going to read this tonight and hopefully make some adjustments!

[Kansasslider]

Your welcome. Your river water could contain snails and all kinds of crap not meant for indoor tanks. This filter is really simple to hook up and will give you clean filtered water. Keep in mind the slower you run the water through the filter the better it works. And consider getting rid of the gravel. A lot of us use pool filter sand instead of gravel or rocks. Some people have bare tanks. I like sand.

[RKRamos]

I am going to try sand. I had "river rocks" in there originally but they developed mold EXTREMELY fast so I decided to get rid of them. I will look at the pool filter sand though.

[Kansasslider]

The mold/algea was probably caused by the river water.

[RKRamos]

The mold/algea was probably caused by the river water.

Yea more than likely.