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I want to add that I took out a lot of wood and instead I added about 40 cherryblossom tree leaves presoaked in boiled water; It seem that not all tannins are the same as the water is tinted decent and has only added 5ppm since adding the leaves and removing the wood.
thanks for all your info thats really helpful. I may get a better Ro unit but my water is so soft it takes little to get it to 0 ec. its at 80 from the tap. but thanks this has given me some perspective.
yeah its black peat and im adding a bricket so likely its far too much. but I just dont understand how you can tint the water brown and have conductivity at 20 which is recommended. its like magic. I have a jar of alder cone water which is black, but the EC is 1200 and so i darent add it to my...
So ~Ive been trying to get the water quality right and I am having trouble. I guess I could just strip my tank, but it kind of annoys me that it doesnt work. The water goes in pure 0 EC and overnight jumps to 80. ~I even tried to do a 100% change, soaking up residue water with a towel but still...
i have ivanacara pair and they are laying eggs which are not hatching at 50ppm tds rainwater. I have a RO filter the cheap one and i was wondering how safe it is to slowly replace the tank water to pure RO and maybe some peat as well. will this kill the bacteria in my filter?
eh was quite easy. I made a divider out of cardboard and covered with tarpaulin which was kind of ok but reminds me i should have a plastic divider as i had to weight it down with a bamboo stick wedge. but yeah it worked the male was like sheepdog keeping everybody to one side and with the...
so my Ivanacara head m and f paired and laid eggs and now I have the nigh impossible task to evacuate the other 4. My problem is that the females when colours are off are the same size as the sub males and almost indistinguisable from each other; so when i bag them i cant tell who's who. My plan...
i walk home from the beach and these guys are abundant. ive fed a few testers and my ivanacara like them but I thought id post incase someone could think of a reason why not.
to lower ph from 6.8 . kh2 gh 3, tds 70. seems like it might be a nice additive along with ground beech bark. anythoughts from someone with better chem experience, im just experimenting. I was thinking of using acetic acid as i soak wood in ascetic acid/cinnamon solution and I think my fish...