Re: PH crashing Up?

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com>]

In Denver the water department raises the pH of the tap water by using Sodium
Hydroxide, I think. It doesn't raise the KH, but does raise the pH.

Mike Wise

TD7894@aol.com wrote:

> I have been anxiously watching this thread for a solution to this problem.  I
> have mixed my tap water with distilled water, nine parts distilled to one
> part tap and used every substrate known to man, even no substrate, no
> decorations and only wads of java moss and my ph crashes up within hours to
> 8.4.  I have given samples of my water to various people and nobody can
> figure out why.  My gh and kh will be 2 or so and no amount of peat or
> anything else available will sustain a ph lower than 8 and this in a
> completely bare tank with a fistful of java moss.  I have concluded that my
> water company, in an attempt to protect it's ancient system of metal pipes,
> adds something to keep ph high.  I can't fix this and so have been getting
> fairly discouraged about keeping apistos.  If anybody can solve my problem, I
> would be eternally grateful.  Teresa.  By the by, borelli have bred like
> rabbits in this water, and even rams once.
>
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