Hello Neighbor. We are in the Goose Lake area and i have had a fish tank for years!But i also hauled :town" water too!! Our water was also very hard and rusty. Two years ago we had a Big Iron system installed. Now our water is Fish tank worthy and my hauling days are over! We now have a freshwater tank, a cichlid tank and a reef tank. I do some adjustments mostly on our reef tank, adding calcium etc, but i never used our water before we got the BI system. If you decide to go with your well water, you;re braver than me!