[APD] Re: Nerite Snails....problems with K2SO4?

[Clint Brearley <clint_brearley at telstra_com>]

Where did you get your K2SO4? If it's low grade quality, then it could possibly be some impurity that is giving the snails problems rather that the potassium itself. Just a thought.

Clint Brearley
Melbourne, Australia

> Hiya....
> 
> I added some potassium sulphate for first time to my tank in order 
> to raise 
> K to about 10-20 ppm per Chuck Gadds calculator.  A few hours 
> later , I 
> noticed all my Nerite snails are very unhappy...lying on bottom, 
> not moving. 
>   If I take them out and put in water without K2SO4, they 
> recover....put 
> them back into tank, and they get unhappy again.
> 
> All other tank parameters are A-OK...ph=6.7, ammonia zero, nitites 
> zero, 
> nitrates 10 ppm.
> 
> Anyone else have this kind of problem with Nerite snails after 
> adding 
> potassium sulphate?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lorenzo Rota
> Santa Cruz, CA


----------------
Powered by telstra.com
                                                                      

_______________________________________________
Aquatic-Plants mailing list
Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
http://www.actwin.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/aquatic-plants