Best water for fish tanks
Tap vs well vs RO/distilled, bottled-water spats, minerals, and a wall of “wet” jokes.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 77 | 52 | 64 |
Thread digests
Forum threads that blew up, trimmed to what people actually said. Each digest notes where the crowd lined up, where they fought, and how noisy the thread got - plus a quick score table so you can skim before reading.
Tap vs well vs RO/distilled, bottled-water spats, minerals, and a wall of “wet” jokes.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 77 | 52 | 64 |
Top-off years, planted “balance,” TDS debates, Walstad pedantry, and science vs anecdote.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 88 | 80 | 46 |
Female vs plakat vs long fin, backup-tank advice, “none,” and wild-type species tangents.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 83 | 74 | 54 |
Staples, frozen, freeze-dried cautions, feeding frequency, and the pellet vs granule mix-up.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 64 | 46 | 56 |
Inert sand, root tabs vs water column, soil caps, lights, rhizomes, and vacuum etiquette.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 86 | 66 | 74 |
SAE myth wars, Amano debates, light/nitrate causes, Excel vs blackout vs peroxide.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 83 | 78 | 56 |
Tap vs RO phosphates, light and CO2 tweaks, Amano vs puffers, phosphate binders.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 80 | 65 | 58 |
Huge thread: jokes, real claims, State Farm and Lemonade, agents and riders.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 94 | 80 | 48 |
Fast vs feeders vs blocks, helpers and timers, binge-before fights, unexplained deaths after “no feed.”
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 80 | 71 | 62 |
Enterprise in planted tanks, 3D skulls, safety files, and “don’t let plant snobs deter you.”
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 76 | 34 | 82 |
First-time joy, combos with FX and HOB, noise split, shrimp and outage tips.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 72 | 42 | 82 |
Otos, gouramis, cories: cycle vs maturity, DGIV, stocking a 15 gal, test wars.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 78 | 76 | 52 |
Grouped timeline bands, engagement and contention scores, overlap vs disputes.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 79 | 84 | 46 |
Grouped plant themes, thread scores, and common disagreements.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 86 | 73 | 74 |
Fish space, flow, chemistry, and where the thread said yes, no, or joke.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 77 | 57 | 63 |
Feeding, traps, assassins, loaches, and where the crowd agreed and fought.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 94 | 76 | 72 |
Marketplace success and horror stories, DOA policies, LFS vs shipping, acclimation and water chemistry.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 86 | 58 | 47 |
First canister, planted tank, clarity and flow: grouped model bands and where the thread agreed.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 81 | 54 | 76 |
40/60 gallon breeder, Fluval vs HOB, prefilters, leaks, and combo polish setups.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 82 | 68 | 48 |
Quick clean versus media volume, combos and polishers, gasket discipline, sump tangents.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 84 | 54 | 64 |
Weekly with water changes vs waiting for flow to drop: four answer bands and thread scores.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 92 | 65 | 74 |
Same species shoal vs mix and match: four bands, group-size debates, and where people agreed.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 78 | 68 | 72 |
Neon lottery, emotional “favorites,” discus splits, DG and rams, specialist feeders and meme whales.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 88 | 72 | 56 |
Livebearers vs cichlids, scatterer stories, bristlenose brags, and occasional flex replies.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 74 | 36 | 80 |
No real top five, loach lore, catfish long tail, giant cichlid flex, otos and tangents.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 77 | 62 | 60 |
What a huge thread argued about: physical methods, freezing, flushing, and steering to real guides.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 96 | 85 | 61 |
Exhausted first-timer, seeded media, and bottle-bacteria fights: four bands and scores.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 74 | 70 | 66 |
Seeded media, bottle bacteria, fish-in vs patience, and instant-claim brags vs test-chart reality.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 88 | 72 | 52 |
Shrimp, parameter talk, and suggestions that ignored the brief: four bands.
| Engagement | Contention | Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| 52 | 68 | 54 |