meese-a-mew
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You want to get organic peat moss and put in a fine mesh media bag. The peat will discolor water and make it brown but you can boil it to get most of the tannins out
You really don't want to boil the tannins out if your goal is to soften the water. Tannins are the acids released by, wood peat and leaves that do the softening.
I always pre soaked the peat to drain off the really fine particles, placed it in a media bag soaked it a again and gave it a good wring to remove mor fine particles then placed it in the filter.
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Good info gillie.
The coloration is the reason it lowers the ph on your water. You can't have one without the other sadly. How much are you trying to drop your ph by?
Trying to drop from 7 to somewhere around 5.5
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