Re: DH water

[Scheele Juergen <juesche@earthlink.net>]

Well,
I am not a chemist and have probably not the
correct arguments, but.......
My gut feeling tells me different....
We'll leave it to the beavers...I mean apistos :-)

Juergen


"enter.net" wrote:

> 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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