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Water Hardness Reduction
Customers have mixed opinions regarding the water hardness reduction ability of the API Water Softener Pillow. While some report significant improvement, others mention no change or even issues with sand-like substance in the filter.
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Quality
The pillow is a close fit in the tetra whisper 40i filter's bio-foam tray, for handy drop-in (tank or bucket of tap water) water softening.
We have a 20 gallon tank and to be on the safe side we used two in the filtering system and in the 48 hours the water was perfect!
Turtle rip it open spent 2 hours filtering my water trying to get the sand like stuff out i think i got most of it after doing ... Read More
Within 48 hours my betta tank’s water hardness dropped over 100ppm right where it needed to be.
Price
It was very disheartening and expensive to keep replacing the fish.
Shipping
Got the tests from amazon and bought this pillow immediately.
Packaging/appearance
Follow the directions on the package for recharging and storing, and this product will not let you down!
The packs (i bought 2) came moist and when you read the instructions, you need to store with aquarium salt to recharge it.
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soft, sure, great and found. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 793.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 3,024 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 24 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Got the tests from amazon and bought this pillow immediately
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It changed my water chemistry slowly over a few hours
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Took it out after 8 hours i fell asleep still testing the water daily has lower readings for my fish tanks days later
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The packs i bought 2 came moist and when you read the instructions you need to store with aquarium salt to recharge it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had it on there for about 2
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I checked it and it went from hard water to very soft water in that short of a time
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It went too soft so i had to add spring water in to try and balance it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It went too soft for betta fish
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