Re: Tonics, Peats, and Buffers

["Raymond Wong" <myapisto@hotmail.com>]

Quick question
I put the peat the fulffy stuff into a nylon bag and place it hanging in my 
tank and i try it with fluval's peat granules but I get a faster 'browning' 
of the water from the fluval peat.. am i doing something wrong?



>From: IDMiamiBob@aol.com
>Reply-To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
>To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
>Subject: Re: Tonics, Peats, and Buffers
>Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 03:00:04 EDT
>
>In a message dated 6/9/00 9:57:17 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
>sturob@swbell.net writes:
>
><snip>> Number 2: Peat, any differences between brands?  Some better than
> >  others?  Plant nursery peat OK?
>
>Not so much different brands, but different types.  The best is sphagnum
>peat, which is almost exclusively harvested fromQuebec and Ontario.  I buy
>mine at nurseries, in 40-lb bags.  It's cheap that way and lasts a long 
>time.
>  If it does not specify sphagnum, it's something else.
>
> >  Number 3: Phosphate buffers: I realize they're relatively stable
> >  buffers (like Seachem's Discus Buffer), but is all that phosphate
> >  stressful to S. Am. fish?
>
>Phosphates are linked to algae growth.  They were banned from detergents in
>the US because the resulting algae caused problems in some bodies of water.
>Other than that, they cause an increase in conductivity, and Amazon fish
>generally prefer minimal conductivity.  Not that they can tell how well
>electricity is being conducted by the water, but they can tell when the 
>ionic
>concentrations increase.
>
>Bob Dixon
>Cichlid Trader List Administrator
>http://cichlidtrader.listbot.com
>
>
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