Ringworm is a fungal skin infection; there are several different types of fungus that can cause ringworm. 1  Symptoms of ringworm, other than dog hair loss, include: 2  Scaliness. 3  Crusty areas. 4  Pustules. 5  Vesicles. 6  Itchiness. 7  Draining.
Neither the water heater nor the softener has had anything done to it in 11 years other than me adding salt to the water softener salt storage container. We have hard water. Recently, in the past several months, our water has got sort of a musty smell (for lack of a better description) intermittently.
Saltless Water Softeners vs. Salt Based Water Softeners. As discussed above, salt-based water softeners use a negatively charged resin bed to attract and remove magnesium and calcium from the water supply. These water softeners also use salt to clean the water softener and regenerate the resin bed. During regeneration, positively charged sodium ions replace the hard water minerals trapped in the resin bed, and the hard water concentrate is flushed down the drain. Salt-free water softeners, on the other hand, do not remove hard water minerals from the water. Rather, they transform the magnesium and calcium chemically, so that they do not cling to surfaces and precipitate into scale.