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Re: Nothobranchius infertility & Acriflavine
There is less contradiction here than might be apparent, at first glance.
Peat is a weak water softener, but the effect in all but dead soft water is
negligible, unless it is in a filter and changed often. Boiling and rinsing in
normal tap water (not dead soft) can reduce the humins, greatly, and tie up a
lot of the ion-exchange sites, so effect on pH or KH is then pretty minimal.
I rarely keep soft-water fish in water below about 100 ppm tds and maybe 60
ppm KH, so stationary peat on the substrate or in a container has essentially
no effect on water chemistry that I or the fish can detect. pH drop over time
is more due to food and organic waste buildup than anything the peat can do,
IMO.
I would say to blame too little buffering in your water, if peat noticeably
changes the pH or GH when used as a spawning or anti-bacterial medium. Import
some normal tap water from a hard-water area, or move to a better place for
keeping fish, ;-)
Wright
listhub at andante_mn.org wrote:
>
> I have looked at this with actual tests. Boiled, washed, prepared peat in
> reasonable quantities in a Notho spawning tank for four days gave no change
> whatever in TDS, pH, GH, or KH. I was concerned about this reading your posts
> and email so I did the experiment. No change in water parameters in my hands.
>
> I know that when I am trying to use peat to acidify and soften water in my
> Apisto tanks I have to use a fairly large amount, continually pass water
> through it and change it frequently to get any effect at all.
>
> Peace
> john
>
> On 07-Dec-01 Tranquility Base wrote:
> > I, for one, am not an advocate of putting peat into tanks with fish. I
> > believe that it benefits most killies, especially Nothos, to keep them in
> > water with stable water chemistry. Peat can soften the water and or drive
> > down the pH.
>
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