Easy-Life AquaMaker tap water conditioner, 100 ml to 5 L

The basic dose is 10 ml per 50 litres. It is reduced to 5 ml when your water contains little chlorine or chloramine, and rises to 20 ml when it contains a lot. In the event of a spike, with 3 mg/L of nitrite or 1 mg/L of ammonia, it rises to 30 ml per 50 litres. Shake the bottle for about thirty seconds before dosing. Take a 300-litre tank in which you replace 100 litres: you measure out 60 ml, calculated on the total volume of the tank, and pour it into the fresh water before putting it back in.

Each water change is dosed on the total volume of the tank, so the size is chosen according to the volume of your aquarium and how often you change water. On a 100-litre aquarium refreshed every week, each change calls for 20 ml: the 100 ml bottle lasts 5 weeks, the 250 ml about 3 months, the 500 ml about 6 months and the 1 L bottle a whole year. The 5 L container, which treats 25,000 litres, is used to fill a garden pond or to condition the regular top-ups of an aquaponic system.

An aquaponic system loses water every day through evaporation and plant transpiration, and each top-up brings chlorine into the circuit. AquaMaker then protects the fish and the nitrifying bacteria, which carry out the nitrogen cycle by converting ammonia into nitrate for your plants. It is also useful when starting up a system, before the first fish arrive. The guide to starting an aquaponic system properly describes this first filling in detail.