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re: Ph crashing up?
All I am using of substrate is silica blasting sand I found down at my local home depot. The front 2/3rds of the tank is just this sand. The back third is about 3 cups of Flora base substrate covered by plain coated aquarium gravel I picked up at the local petsmart.
I tested the blasting sand for buffering by taking about 5ml of sand, and mixing it with about 2ml of dry Kent ph down (I think is carbonic acid). I then mixed it with water and watched for a reaction (bubbling, ect..) There was none. Therefore I am assuming the sand is inert. The other substate materials are either coated, or should cause a slight ph fall.
Now if the plants are causeing the ph rise, then floating algea/java moss matts that cover a portion of the surface would be suspect. They account for most of the plant mass in the aquarium.
At 10:56 AM 4/25/03 -0500, you wrote:
Must be your substrate. What are you using? Now I want
your substrate!!!
Tomoko
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