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Re: pH Shock...
> Kind of makes you laugh when the new guy at the LFS says "float the bag".
> Imagine two tributaries coming into a river. Both temperature and pH on the
> incoming trib is different than the main stream. Do you think the fish puts
> one fin into the trib and wait 20 minutes before deciding to swim up the
> trib? That he swims up and die within a day?
>
> - - Jeff
>
Maybe fry are more susceptible. I've heard that it's better to drip greenwater into a rainbowfish fry tank from the bottom; the pH
difference in the greenwater, when dropped on the fry at the water surface will kill them.
-- Stephen