Re: our tap water: how to lower pH safely

[steev ward <steevward@mac.com>]

Betty-

Sodium biphosphate, also known as Monosodium Phosphate, works really well for
bringing the pH down in soft water.
But what you would really like best is to make some good old back-to-nature
peat tea. Get a BUNCH of peat, and soak it in a bucket of water. Collect the
brown liquid (Black Water) that you make this way and use it a little at a
time to lower the pH in those spawning tanks. It's fun and organic and the
fish like it for more than the pH effects. Don't worry if you get some of the
fine peat particles in the tank; the filter will pick it up and it will act
similar to a Diatom filter.

Then get some peat-spawning killies to breed in the peat when you're done
with it.

Steev

haika@drizzle.com wrote:

> I've got a couple fish that would probably spawn more readily if I could
> figure out a way to bring down the pH safely. I've tried a number of
> things that have helped, but I still rarely get the pH below 7.0. ...

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