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From: corbin@encore.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: potash & PH
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Date: 5 Feb 88 15:18:26 GMT
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Reply-To: corbin@encore.UUCP (Steve Corbin)
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In article <2407@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>
>My water here is pH 8 point something.
>
>Is this a problem ?
>
>Do your fish exhibit signs of distress ?

I am a novice at this stuff and am not sure I can tell if the fish are
distressed.  At high PH they were just floating around lazily.  Not as
active as I believe they are supposed to be.  I also had an ammonia problem
which might have been the cause of any ill health.  My question is:  will
high PH encourage ammonia or algae buildup?

>
>Could you take 1 part untreated well water and mix it with 1 part
>treated well water ?

I could but I was told that the high iron and mineral content of our water
will kill the fish.  Before putting in our water filter our tank water was
always yellowish brown due to the iron.  We lost a lot of fish because of
my inablility to keep the tank clean.  I would change 20-30% of the water
each WEEK and still couldn't keep the algae and ammonia from building up.
The well water also has a high manganese and tannin content.  Will this be
all right for the fish?

>
>Is there any pizza left ?

One piece. It's two weeks old.  Guess I should toss it out now.

>
>-- 
>            "I'm not going back to Woodstock for a while..." 
>                          richard@gryphon.CTS.COM 
>   {ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax, philabs!cadovax, codas!ddsw1} gryphon!richard

Again, I'm a rank amateur here and almost sorry I got into this.

-- 

Stephen Corbin
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