Re: General Fishroom Questions

[mjacobs2@tampabay.rr.com]

Depending on your peat maybe nothing!  There is peat and there is "hot" peat nd 
all in the middle....some peat regardless of your buffers will not move the pH 
down very much and certainly not to the level that some of us want.  The more 
buffers you have in your water the "hoter" your peat must be.  You can do 
nothng but test your peat after letting it sit in water for a couple of days 
and see what the pH of the water is.  SOME bags of good Canadian peat have the 
pH labeled on the back of the package.....that's really nifty but I found it to 
be rare!  On some of the peat I've used I might as well have been puting in 
sand.......no afect at all.

Have a super day..........

Mike



> In a message dated 10/11/01 12:50:24 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> Fredrik.Ljungberg@saab.se writes:
> 
> 
> > I made sure to have a simple water changing procedure.
> > All tanks are drilled for outlet and I just add water through
> > a hose connected to the tap or a pump in the RO/Peat-barrel.
> > 
> 
> Just Curious Fredrik,
>  I'm still learning. Just wanted to know do you actually keep peat in with 
> your RO water or are you adding extract from peat to it. Either way what does 
> that do to your TDS?
>                                                             JerryB
> 






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