Re: pH Levels.




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"swarvegorilla" <fatcatfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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maybe check the tank for clacium sources but aside from that you

Calcium is not directly related to basic water conditions, but carbonates
are. The most common carbonate in water is calcium carbonate, but it is
not the same as free calcium.

Yea I know but shells, limestone, marble, concrete.... they all raise your
ph.... well if it low anyway.
or something
I tell ya the more I learn about kh and gh and ph and co2 levels the more I
wish I didn't know.
:-)
Losing sleep here over de-gassing and the like
I had to get into planted tanks to use up all the obscure test reagents in
me multi test cases.
best thing you can ever do with any test kits by the way is record the
results.
It all makes a lot more sense when you can flip thru results.
or maybe my memory is just shot.
either way tank journals make nice souveniers.


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