Hard water solutions

I have 400-450 tap water.
Is there a less expensive way to bring that down to a more reasonable number without doing r.o.?
I hate that i would be wasting so much water...

And if not, any reccomendations for a r.o. system??

use GH trio with hard water micro. i think 400ppm might be too high for even that though. check on the GH website.

Cut it with 50% rainwater.

Look at this buildup

bgmike8 said:

Look at this buildup

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yikes. that looks weird as hell. i hauled 5 gallon jugs of RO from the grocery/store for years before i finally moved into using just my well water. but mine is only 100ppm