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Re: Food culturing, vineger eels, black worms, biv Funge, pH lowering


First,you have not defined your current water conditions, so I'm not so
sure you need to do anything with it. I " grew up" in Cleveland before
moving out west and the water there was moderately hard and slightly
alkaline (couple hundred ppm hard with a pH of 71/2). The killies did just
fine, bred like rabbits and were always healthy. It was just a few
sensitive species that were encouraged to breed by softening or acidifying
the water. 95% of the species were fine with the stuff from the tap.

Here in Colorado my water is 30 ppmTDS and, although it comes out the tap
at 7.6, it goes to the 6's or even 5's in a week or two and that makes for
many unhealthy fish after years in this water. I have found that Seachem
Neutral Regulator, a phosphate buffer, keeps my tanks around pH 7 for many
weeks and has led to much healthier fish. For a few sensitive species I
counteract its effect with a little of their Discus buffer. It is pretty
affordable, I only need about a half teaspoon in a 5 gal tank every month
or so,  so a $10 bottle lasts at least half a year for my 50 tanks.






                                                                                            
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Yeah, the water is perfact for my couminity tank but not for killies i'd
like
to reduse it. I am counting on the eel and corys to keep the cross breed
babys down. Sence the killies will be in a heavly planted holding tank
(it's
also my show tank, very nice with the killies and plants i wish i had a
darker substrat tho).

Anyone got any good sugestions on products and ways to lower the pH?


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