Do you alter the PH of your water

[Pat Kelly]

new poll
do you alter the ph of your water

 

[msjinkzd]

yes. I use peat, almond leaves, driftwood, crushed coral, shells, ro, etc all to alter my water to suit what I want to keep.

 

[Billy Rocket]

I'm a Darwin kinda guy.

 

[iamzrad]

Crushed coral.

 

[Cartel]

If It makes it yay! If it doesn't then well nay.

 

[neut]

I use baking soda to raise and buffer my ph from 6.6 or so out of the tap to 7.4-7.6. Nitrifying bacteria are actually more efficient at pH over 7 and I've successfully kept everything from discus to wild plecos and green terrors (after acclimation) to Malawis to Zaire fronts at mid 7's pH.

I've found most fish to be pretty adaptable, within reason, but If I wanted to keep something bad enough that absolutely required different conditions I'd set up a tank to suit them.

 

[UNCLERUCKUS]

I USE PRIME AND DO WEEKLY WATER CHANGES. SO FAR NO PROBLEMS WITH MY PH.

 

[F8LBITE]

my tap is 7.2 Ive gotten all my fish used to it.

 

[Nathan]

I have to use an Ro unit

 

[Frank Cowherd]

I do not use chemicals except sodium bicarbonate, in the chemical sense. I do use some substrate known to maintain high pH and crushed oyster shell (to keep up Calcium levels and pH) but to lower the pH I use mainly RO water or deionized water, these both make pure water, they remove chemicals. Occasionally I do use peat if I want soft acid black water for fish like tetras.

 

[mscichlid]

When rain is plentiful I use a mix of 110 gals of rain and 80 gals of tap. In the winter, the fish have to go back to tap which is 7.6 normally. Depending on a particular species, driftwood, peat and almond leaves are used.

 

[mchambers]

Me too

When rain is plentiful I use a mix of 110 gals of rain and 80 gals of tap. In the winter, the fish have to go back to tap which is 7.6 normally. Depending on a particular species, driftwood, peat and almond leaves are used.

I've been using rainwater the last two months for two tanks to lower the PH and soften the water for some rams. Using about a 50/50 mix of rainwater to tap. Also trying to use some rainwater to encourage corys to spawn, although it doesn't seem to be working.

 

[George]

I'm with Frank. I alter the hardness with R/O. Francine and others do it with rain water. Altering the Ph without changing the mineral content is a losing battle and probably won't help anyway. Ask Frank, he's the chemist.

George