Re: PH

["Vern Wensley" <vernwen@home.com>]

Does your filter agitate the water surface?If it does it will dissipate the
CO2 and your ph will rise.Thats my guess.
Vern

----- Original Message -----
From: <mickey3@intergate.ca>
To: <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 3:23 PM
Subject: PH


> Ok...now here's a weird one for everyone. I've been fighting to keep the
PH
> down in my 72 gal, as it would always rise into a high akaline no matter
> what type of buffers I used. I added a nylon bag off spagnum peat to my
> penguin emporer bio wheel filter and it stays down around 6.8. The other
> day I turned off the emporer for the afternoon, for some peace and non
> gurgling quiet, and forgot to turn it back on until the next morning. In a
> panic I checked the PH and it's in the basement, Like high 5's to 6.0. If
I
> turn on the emporer, which has nothing in it except peat moss and some
> standard floss filter media, the PH rises. Now what's with that? Could it
> somehow be ionizing the water into an akaline state? I went so far as to
> call Texas and get the specs on the gravel, which is 99.9% silicon and
> inert when it was PH tested. Has anyone else had this experience?...thx
and
> sorry for getting off the apisto subject and into the twilight
zone....Mike.
>
>
>
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