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From: boreas@bucsb.UUCP (The Cute Cuddle Creature)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: potash & PH
Summary: try bottled water?
Message-ID: <1457@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 88 21:07:44 GMT
References: <2610@encore.UUCP>
Reply-To: boreas@bucsb.bu.edu (The Cute Cuddle Creature)
Followup-To: alt.aquaria
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In article <2610@encore.UUCP> corbin@encore.UUCP writes:
[about a *bad* water problem with pH and iron and potash and so on]
>I can continue to use the sodium biosphate but each time I clean the tank
>I use two containers fo the stuff.  This really is a little too expensive
>for me.
>
>Any suggestions?  Maybe a source for an industrial size container of sodium
>biosphate or equivalent?
>
>Steve Corbin
>{ihnp4, allegra, linus, decvax} ! encore ! corbin

Well, Boston water is pretty terrible too (though nowhere near as bad as
yours, from the sound of it!);  I've been thinking about using bottled
water if/when I set one up (have to ask the landlord).  Does anyone know
of any problems with this?  (The store across the street sells water for
$0.50 per gallon, so the price is considerably less than a can of sodium
biophosphate!  And it's probably better for the fish, too.)  The graphics
lab here did this, and their fish seem to be doing fine. . . .

			-- Michael.
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