Re: DH water

["enter.net" <conwayte@enter.net>]

It is just condensed water out of the air.
Unless you have and old DH your tubes are Aluminum, which means that the
outer surface it oxidized to Al2O3 and is very resistant.
It will be the next best thing to DI water.

tc

> From: Scheele Juergen <juesche@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: apisto@listbox.com
> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 19:46:41 -0700
> To: apisto@listbox.com
> Subject: Re: DH water
> 
> 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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