Question about my tap water...

I live in the mountains and our water is very clean. It comes out of the faucet at 90 ppm. I bought ionic hard water nutrients. Will ionic still work with the water being relatively clean compared to most hard waters? I have heard I don't need to supplement cal/mag with ionic hard water. Should I add cal/mag considering how low the ppm is?

would you consider your water as "soft" or "hard"?

All water districts have their water tested atleast yearly by federal law the results are public info. and are usualy published in the local papers. I would go to the libary and look up this info. as a good place to start

If you have your own well most countys will test your water for free every so many years

I really would not consider your water "hard". But yes having the water tested would be a place to start. My tap water is 200ppm and the only issue i have is PH control as it does contain buffers. I start at 7.2 out of tap and add 150 ml of down per 100 L of water to get it too 6. As far as calmag i have not had to add any, i think i have lots 😳.

I checked the report. It did not mention calcium or magnesium in the water supply. Is it ok to add cal/mag to my ionic hard water formula or should I switch nutrients?

iFreeSki420 said:

I checked the report. It did not mention calcium or magnesium in the water supply. Is it ok to add cal/mag to my ionic hard water formula or should I switch nutrients?

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ok, I'll ask again, is your water hard or soft?

The OP has already told us that it's soft. In his first post.

The question was, since I have soft water, but have hard-water nutes, what should I look out for...

I think you should use it and not worry. NPK and macro content is more important than whether the nutrient claims to be "ionic" or "specialised for hard water"...

MajorCoco said:

The OP has already told us that it's soft. In his first post.

The question was, since I have soft water, but have hard-water nutes, what should I look out for...

I think you should use it and not worry. NPK and macro content is more important than whether the nutrient claims to be "ionic" or "specialised for hard water"...

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I re-read it 3 times and he does not say "soft"....I asked the OP to confirm, but I agree that how you worded the question is likely what he meant

So assuming his water is soft, then why use a product for hard water....then to add cal-mag, which is typically for soft water

IMHO...don't use a product that was designed for the opposite of what you have

90 ppm tap water is soft water. My tap water is over 400 ppm and you can almost chew it. I would add a calmg to you nutes.

Does your water come from a well?

It does not come from a well. We just have really clean water because I live in the mountains. I will try using my hard water nutes with a dash of cal/mag and see what happens I guess. I am doing bubble buckets similar to hygro hybrid on YouTube. He does 250 ppm of cal mag and 250-350 ppm of nutes using ro water. Maybe I will top off my tap water to 250 ppm using cal mag and then use my hard water nutes. I don't want to waste them since I already have them.

your 90 ppm could be all or no cal-mag you could get it tested and see for yourself i think.

Lead 1.9 ppb
Copper .05 ppm

Disinfection byproducts:

HAA5 36.08 ppb
TTHM 35.95 ppb

Total organic carbon:

Ratio 1.84

Turbitity:

.094

Inorganic contaminants:

Barium .05 ppm
Fluoride .76 ppm
Nitrate .11 ppm
Selenium 5.2 ppb

Water hardness varies from 35 to 110 mg/L averaging about 80 mg/L (4.68 grains/g) annually. PH varies from 7.5 to 8.0. Chloride has averaged about 6 mg/L over the previous 10-year period. Chlorine levels entering the distribution system ranged from 0.50 to 2.11 mg/L. Most of the iron and manganese is removed – trace amounts remain. Additional fluoride is added to the water for dental health benefits to a target level of .70 mg/L. The microscopic particulate analyses test showed a 99.99% microorganism removal, which is a 4.200 log reduction.
The daily peak water production was 2.980 million gallons on June 24th 2012, which is about 55% of the water plant production capacity. The Tarn water plant has a maximum production capacity of about 5.4 million gallons per day. The daily annual average production was 1.590 million gallons per day. Daily annual average per capita production was approximately 38 gallons per person per day. This is based on an annual average of 151 gallons per day per Single Family Equivalent (SFE). One SFE is equal to 4.0 people. The system currently serves about 10497 SFE’s.

I couldn't find anything on calcium or magnesium

I wouldn't add cal-mag unless you see a deficiency. I run with Blue Planet Nutrients and have never once needed it, but they have plenty of calcium in their MICRO on the 3-part.