Re: DH water

[Scheele Juergen <juesche@earthlink.net>]

I agree on the duckweed.
Pretty amazing!

I still don't agree on the DH water.
You can't take painkillers all the time if you have tooth ache.
One day you need to see a dentist.
or another one of my favorites.
You should not use muratic acid to get the KH/PH down.
DH water is an artificial product.
With our limited ability to test this water (Hobbyist Water Test Kits)
it will be very difficult/expensive to test for copper or other residues.
They maybe have no immediate ill effects for the aquatic life (Apistos:-),
but may in the long run F1 - F2 - etc, generation result in infertility, etc.
Sorry for the rambling,
any chemists on the list  ?

Juergen


Jim wrote:

> I have used DH for discus, angles, and apistos (Apistogrammoides love half
> DH and half city water) to no ill effect. My DH does NOT have copper coils
> though. I save the water in plastic garbage cans throughout the summer. Have
> three filled now. I also leave bogwood I am not using in there to soak and
> stay heavy. Here's an amazing thing... some duckweed go into one of the cans
> but still grew despite a cover on it. Go figure! It didn't reproduce, but
> stayed green!
>
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