Learning about plants and light

@caccoon Ngl tho, I kinda wanna try growing edible plants with an aquaponic setup in my room...

But I'ma gonna try the nonedible/decorative plants first 😅

Heard you have to be careful with edible plants and aquaponics if you use standard dechlorinators amongst other tank treatments 🤔

@Fishy regarding your last statement, why is that?

You can also avoid dechlorinators if they are the issue

@caccoon I'm a total noob to it, so I'm not 100% sure, but I've been poking around in the aquaponics community and many people think that it could have contaminates that will transfer to the food you harvest or something and it could be toxic in the long term, or because these products aren't really designed for human consumption that there's less food safety regulations or something

I heard of people using vitamin C as an alternative dechlorinators tho

@Fishy yes, you could also use distilled water or rainwater and run through a UV sterilizer to get rid of any harmful bacteria, and then remineralize to the correct specs.

With my tanks, I remineralize. It's just easier to maintain. It seems like a pain in the ass but honestly it saves so much fucking around

I don't trust dechlorinators much