Re: [Killietalk] Any soft water Nothos

[RFeilzer at aol_com]

In a message dated 7/6/2005 6:38:19 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
bwatters at sasktel_net writes:

The  average Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) content of the water in all the
Notho  localities that I have investigated (a few hundred) is 95 ppm, which
is  quite soft. However, the water is invariably alkaline, the avarage pH
being  7.4. When the pool fills up the water leaches Ca and Mg from the
substrate,  keeping the water alkaline. The very few Notho habitats that have
acidic  water are almost always those that have a large amount of  decaying
vegetation in them and the consequent acidification exceeds the  buffering
capacity of the substrate


See, this is what I was trying to say, thanks  Brian
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