Re: Peat Filtration

[orion@tri-isys.com]

> Hi All,
> I'm sorry for covering a subject that has been so heavily discussed, but
> I'm not real sure what's happening..  I tried browsing through various
> articles and messages on peat and nothing really relates to what's going
> on with me.
> 
> Pretty much what's happening is no matter how much peat I bag up and
> place in the AQ300 on my 90g, nothing seems to happen.  However, soaking
> the peat I have in water yields a pH of roughly 4.0!  I've set up a
> couple 2.5g tanks and tested various ways of "preparing" the peat and
> all yielded pH's of about 4.0.  One tank was set up with the peat
> totally raw, straight from the bale and filled with warm tap water.
> Another was set up with lightly rinsed peat and filled with boiling
> water and the other was filled the same only half boiling half cool
> water.  All 3 yielded approximately the same pH.  I can't say exactly as
> I don't have a meter.  Right now in a 30g rubbermaid tub I have roughly
> 2 gallons of the same peat, however, the pH has barely budged.
> 

If you use peat together with your filtration make sure that it is they 
are at the last part of your system, especially if you also use 
activated charcoal, as activated charcoal counters the effect of peat.
orion@tri-isys.com
Phillipines


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