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RE: increasing pH



Dave,
i'll be doing both.
i'm switching from 28 C and ph = 5 to T = 24-25 C and pH = 6.
thanks for the remarque.
c ya

 Yvan Alleau
712 N.W Kings Blvd
Corvallis, OR 97330
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Oregon State University
office (Burt 222) # 737-3649, to be used wisely!

PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS:
yalleau@coas.oregonstate.edu

"When you're far from everything, you're getting closer to the essential"


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-apisto@admin.listbox.com
[mailto:owner-apisto@admin.listbox.com]On Behalf Of David Sanchez
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 7:06 PM
To: apisto@listbox.com
Subject: Re: increasing pH


Correct me if im wrong but after reading Romers papper
I got the gist that sex ratio had more to do with
temperture then pH. Perhaps you should try a diffrent
Temperture Yvan.

Dave


--- Yvan Alleau <yalleau@coas.oregonstate.edu> wrote:
> Hi apisotholics !
> while i've spend my time back in my city in France
> finding solutions to
> decrease the pH of the water in my tank, i never was
> confronted to the
> opposite: rising it!
> My tap water here is at pH5 (here at Corvallis, OR)
> and so is my tank water
> pH or lower. Now, due to problem with sex-ratio with
> some fish fry i would
> like to increase that pH from 5 to 6.
> Do you have any suggestions?
> I thaught at first that adding some calcareous
> stones or shell or rift lake
> salt would do the trick by increasing the hardness
> of my water but than the
> eggs would have problem to hatch.
> what is a simple way?
> thanks all for your input.
> A bientot
> 
>  Yvan Alleau
> 712 N.W Kings Blvd
> Corvallis, OR 97330
> College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
> Oregon State University
> office (Burt 222) # 737-3649, to be used wisely!
> 
> PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS:
> yalleau@coas.oregonstate.edu
> 
> "When you're far from everything, you're getting
> closer to the essential"
> 
> 
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