Wow......I'm NOT a chemist, but I would like the opportunity to take him to task a little bit to find out what he's talking about.....;-)......who knows.....I might learn something. But it is contrary to what I've been taught.....but this is the fish hobby...................I'll buy the part about "no pure R/O water".......our R/O units do a pretty good job but.......??????????? Mike Mike Jacobs Center for Advanced Technologies High School Math Instructor St. Pete, Fl. ----- Original Message ----- From: <JerrCarol@aol.com> To: <apisto@listbox.com> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 1:14 PM Subject: Re: Reconstituting RO/DI Water/ RO Water comes in at 5.5pH > > Pertaining to the pH of RO water. One of the guys at my fish club is a lab > tech at Aquarium Pharm. While he does agree you can't use the test equipment > at home whether it be electronic or liquid test to measure pH. Apparently > they have something in the lab they can measure it with. He told me there is > no such thing as pure RO and when measured with whatever equipment they use > it comes in at 5.5pH. > Just what I was told... > Not what I know for fact but, this guy is a pretty > up there fish guy. > JerryB. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com. > For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, > email apisto-request@listbox.com. apisto-digest@listbox.com also available. > Web archives at http://lists.thekrib.com/apisto > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com. For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, email apisto-request@listbox.com. apisto-digest@listbox.com also available. Web archives at http://lists.thekrib.com/apisto