well well well ... I finally found some ... $9 for 10 lbs (cheaper than flourite eh? hardly)
anyway, I bought two bags, planning to setup a 10 gal as an experiment
so I get it home, cut open a bag, scoop some into a test tube and add acid
I figure they've gotten WONT AFFECT PH written in huge letters several times on the bag ... that's gotta make you worry
so ... it fizzes right up, almost spilling over onto my hands
it fizzes worse then marble folks ... what's the deal here?
did I get a bad batch, am I reading the results wrong, or what
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those of you using it in aquariums, how's your PH doing, how about KH and GH?
seems risky to be adding something so reactive to an otherwise controlled enviroment ... my water is already very hard, don't need to make it extra hard
I know I can mix in distilled water to reduce hardness, but my current hardness coupled with adding co2 keeps the ph around 7.2 which is fine.
anyway, I bought two bags, planning to setup a 10 gal as an experiment
so I get it home, cut open a bag, scoop some into a test tube and add acid
I figure they've gotten WONT AFFECT PH written in huge letters several times on the bag ... that's gotta make you worry
so ... it fizzes right up, almost spilling over onto my hands
it fizzes worse then marble folks ... what's the deal here?
did I get a bad batch, am I reading the results wrong, or what
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those of you using it in aquariums, how's your PH doing, how about KH and GH?
seems risky to be adding something so reactive to an otherwise controlled enviroment ... my water is already very hard, don't need to make it extra hard
I know I can mix in distilled water to reduce hardness, but my current hardness coupled with adding co2 keeps the ph around 7.2 which is fine.