Re: drip method

["Mike Jacobs" <mjacobs2@tampabay.rr.com>]

.....Bingo Eric.....that's exactly what I've heard and I have never
experienced it so in my small little world it doesn't happen but I really
didn't want to open anything up to an argument.  Some really big time
aquarists have said that so I am standing neutral on the point......never
experienced it but possible I suppose........great question..............any
one ever had it happen?

............John.......you gave the "Blue Goop" to Cleveland.........or are
they just dipping some stuff from the lake???

Mike

Mike Jacobs
Center for Advanced Technologies
High School Math Instructor
St. Pete, Fl.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
To: <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 8:37 PM
Subject: drip method


> The one and only caveat I've ever heard with the "drip" method I thought
> was kind of fascinating: Let's say you take home a bag of fish with low
> hardness (say R/O) water.  The residual fish waste in the water weakly
> acidifies the water. Now you take the bag and start to drip in harder
> tapwater.  Even a small bit of the buffered water will start to raise the
> pH.  As the pH is raised, the nitrogenous waste in the form of ammonium
> (NH4+) starts getting converted to the deadly ammonia (NH3), possibly at a
> faster rate than the old water is diluted by the incoming clean water.
> Yipe!
>
> So, I am curious, I have heard this particular bit of theoretical
> chemistry a few times.  Has anyone actually experienced this when bringing
> a fish home?
>
>   - Erik
>
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