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RE: coral? Re: Clean & Soft Water Needed

Hey, RJ!

Good advice.  I actually have three tubs in back:  a 30 G water where I put
tap water and conditioner and let it age for a few days before water
changes.  a 14G tub with a couple of gallons of peat moss (gets it to a pH
of 3.5- 4.1 or so), and this 14G tub with the crushed coral.  The plan was
to cut the intense soft acid water or the super hard alkaline water with
the tap water to get my desired parameters.  I've keep amazon style tanks
(pH of 5.8 and soft) easily, but the harder water for some of the Fps
didn't seem in the cards.

Doug

>Hi Doug,
>
>Dolomite and crushed coral slowly leach out and harden water. I know people
>who tried dolomite and peat moss to create a type of balance. The water
>parameters fluctuated significantly. First the water went soft and acid then
>hard and somewhere in all of the water chemistry changes his fish stepped
>out of the picture.
>
>There is a LFS which keeps dolomite in their corner filters. But they have
>hundreds of fish in 10 gal tanks and change 50% of their water every other
>day.
>
>I believe that anything you do to prepare the water for killies is a good
>thing if it gets you the water parameters you want but I would not put
>dolomite or crushed coral into a fish tank unless you are willing to risk
>getting hard alkaline water sooner or later.
>
>Best regards,
>
>~RJ~
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]On
>Behalf Of Doug Karpa-Wilson
>Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 2:17 PM
>To: killietalk at aka_org
>Subject: coral? Re: Clean & Soft Water Needed
>
>
>How long does crushed coral take to do it's thing?  I had a 14 G tub with
>coral and a power filter with coral in it for circulation and I never could
>detect any increase in any of the water parameters.  Perhaps a problem with
>the coral?
>
>Doug
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Al Anderson" <killiman at iquest_net>
>To: <killietalk at aka_org>
>Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 12:56 PM
>Subject: Re: Clean & Soft Water Needed
>
>
>> I have a 300 gallon Rubbermaid stock tub outside under the gutter from the
>> stock tub I have a 5/8 " hose that goes thought the foundation to a 6'
>> freezer chest that has a bag of peat and some driftwood in it. The freezer
>> has a large tetra sponge filter in it. the water is allowed to season for
>a
>> few days and then is pumped to the tanks it is needed in.  I also have a
>50
>> gallon a day RO unit that drips Ro water into my soft water system. Water
>> from the soft filter system is used on all of my killifish. There is one
>> tank on the system that has some crushed corral in it to add some minerals
>> to the water. The water on the soft water system has a conductivity of 90-
>> 125, this appears to be working fine for most of the killifish and tetras.
>>
>> Al Anderson
>> killiman at iquest_net
>> breed your fish today because man's
>> breeding is killing the wild supply.
>>
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Doug Karpa-Wilson
1821 S. Maxwell St.
Bloomington, IN 47401


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