Re: cupido WAS: Mazarunia et al

["Vinod Kutty" <VKUTTY@prodigy.net>]

Kym,

I have a conductivity meter.   Think I paid 80 bucks or so.  You still have
no clue what the carbonate hardness of the water is after using it.

Stop trying to fight the hard water with chemicals.  Let the Biotodoma grow
up in your tap water.  When they are all grown and you are ready to breed
them, slowly reduce the hardness.  Then, if the pH doesnt take care of
itself, THEN start adding some diluted acid.

Playing with acids and running to the grocery store to get deionized water
will get old really fast.
I've done it.  When I lived in Florida, I collected rain water.  In
California, people look at me strangely when I say that.  So, I spent $200
on an RO unit and havent looked back.

Vinny
vkutty@prodigy.net



-----Original Message-----
From: K & D martin <martndk@ibm.net>


>vinny, how do you measure the conductivity of the water?  don't recall
>seeing a kit out there for it.  I have my biotodoma with my altispinossas
>now and i am having much troubles with the water.  I cannot get the PH to
go
>below 8!!!! most of the time it is nearer to 9!!  Had a serious ph bounce,
>killed off my congo tetras :(  The water here is hard hard hard!!! about 7
>degrees total hardness with ph at 8.  I've added chemicals to the water,
>peat to the water, ph down, nothing gets it to go down.  this is my 75
>gallon tank and i am fearful for my poor bioto. and altispinossas so i am
>starting tomorrow to replace the water with deionized h2o from the grocery
>store.  Over the next few weeks i hope to get rid of all the tap water and
>move to r/o, which hopefully will let the peat do its job.  I don't know
>what else to do.  My poor kribs are in there too and they've now spawned
>twice in that water to no avail.  they've got to be confused :)
>
>thanks, kym



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