It likely raises TDS, most things you add to your water will. Maybe you can dose a glass of RO water and see if it raises the GH
Will seachem paraguard raise gH or TDS?
So I've been treating my tanks with seachem paraguard due to a rise in temperature and random shrimp deaths here and there. Initial deaths were cloudy and very symptomatic of bacterial infection.
However, when doing water changes with the paraguard regiment, I decided to test the water parameters before my water change.
Initially all my tanks were gH 5, tds 180
post Seachem Paraguard treatments...
gh 9, TDS 300
During this time, no water was added to the tank, nothing was treated besides paraguard, food (jake's veggie + ca) was fed every 2 days and it was completely eaten.
No rocks in my tank
Just plants
No ferts added
Only thing to go into my tanks during this period (dosing schedule of paraguard)...
1) Ebi Ken Ei (twice a week)
2) Jake's Veggie Sticks with Calcium
3) Paraguard
However, when doing water changes with the paraguard regiment, I decided to test the water parameters before my water change.
Initially all my tanks were gH 5, tds 180
post Seachem Paraguard treatments...
gh 9, TDS 300
During this time, no water was added to the tank, nothing was treated besides paraguard, food (jake's veggie + ca) was fed every 2 days and it was completely eaten.
No rocks in my tank
Just plants
No ferts added
Only thing to go into my tanks during this period (dosing schedule of paraguard)...
1) Ebi Ken Ei (twice a week)
2) Jake's Veggie Sticks with Calcium
3) Paraguard
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use borneo wild shield plus~~ might help~! i had random deaths before until i used it~ now 0 death~
and the berried crs released new crs in the tank but it's too small to see~~
Oh the shrimp are still berrying, I have about 40 babies in the 3.5 gallon atm.and the berried crs released new crs in the tank but it's too small to see~~
the R/O water I use is bought from BJ's and from all the water tests I have my R/O water at 2 TDS, gH<1 (since 1 droplet turned the sample green instantly)It likely raises TDS, most things you add to your water will. Maybe you can dose a glass of RO water and see if it raises the GH
I've had paraguard raise TDS when I was treating it. Didn't test GH during the treatment though, so can't help you there.
yeah when I tested it today I was like DAMMMNNNNN a rise by 70-100 tds.I've had paraguard raise TDS when I was treating it. Didn't test GH during the treatment though, so can't help you there.
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