I use well water for my planted aquarium. the water runs through a water softener to remove most of the iron in our water (you can tell in our neighborhood who has lawn sprinklers bypassing the softeners because everything is orange from rust).
Even after softening, the water still tastes metallic when you drink it.
Is there anything than can be used in a canister filter to bind the iron and remove it? I would rather avoid having to go the RO water route.
I listened to an Aquarium Co-op youtube video today and in the video they mentioned that one of the causes of hair algae thrives is high iron environments. I am always fighting hair algae.
