Does Brita help lower aquarium pH?

[ScaryFatKidGT]

What about seachem acid buffer?

 

[Nicki Gaga]

Nah I don't want to use chemicals.

 

[Delapool]

Back to using RO?

 

[Nicki Gaga]

I can't find any RO water so I'm just gonna use peat moss.

 

[Delapool]

Keep us posted on how it goes.

 

[Nicki Gaga]

I'll just stick to peat moss. And I might buy another piece of bogwood or almond leaves in the future.

 

[Delapool]

Do you get that a lfs out of interest? Don't think we have anything like that here.

 

[Nicki Gaga]

Well I live in the UK and they don't sell RO water from the pets tyres I've been to. Do you live in the UK too?

 

[Delapool]

Australia, even worse Western Australia where it's twice as expensive. I've seen a blackwater extract in passing at the lfs but that's about it. Can't remember seeing peat moss or almond leaves in there.

 

[Gillie]

Looks like the brita may be using the same type of resins that water softening systems use, in that case like the faq states it is partially removing calcium and magnesium, but adding different salts to the water in the process which isn't really a good thing. Aside from spending the few hundred dollars on a ro system, you may have to think outside of the box a bit, possibly by contacting drinking water suppliers that fill and deliver those 5 gallon jugs for office water coolers. Maybe you could get water directly from them.

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