Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!lll-winken!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: potash & PH
Message-ID: <2462@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 88 22:29:09 GMT
References: <2610@encore.UUCP> <2407@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2627@encore.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <2627@encore.UUCP> corbin@encore.UUCP (Steve Corbin) writes:
>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?
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No, it wont.

T reduce your pH, get some "peat fibres" and filter your water over that.
No guarentees, but it may work. Also, find some ceder or cypress root
and put that in the tank, that should lower the pH.

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

Hang in there.


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