I buy big bags of luguna peat in a big sack made for ponds . It's like $15 for a few months of brown water
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Sbuse my other hobby is fruit trees.
Almonds are very closely related to plums peaches and apricots. I don't see any benefit from me going in my yard picking leafs from my plums and apricots and letting them deteriorate in my tank ??
Use organic peat moss or drift wood. I'm not sure if these are actual almond leafs your talking about but the almonds I'm thinking of are exactly like my trees I have . If theirs a benefit to them I should start saving minebut most trees are sprayed with copper which is lethal to rays
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Similar here, we have a TON of hardwoods here in the NW but nothing would come close to wood and lord knows I've tried most thing out.
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Depends on the meterial used. Look at most of the threads about people not being able to remove tannins from wood even with water changes for months. Wood lasts a while which is why I made that suggestion.
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Wood lasts about a year until the coloring goes away.
Peat is the ticket I'm telling you and it's very cheap. Fill a filter bag or bags
Simple as she gets
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Peat is the ticket I'm telling you and it's very cheap. Fill a filter bag or bags
Simple as she gets
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With the waterchanges we do on our rays, is it really possible to keep it tan? I also belive peat is the way to go if you wanna try. But it does affect the waterchemistry. Low ph and acidic. But i gues you cant get one without the other. blackwater is blackwater.
I use peat as well. I got about 40 pounds from it in a huge bushel from Lowes for $14.99. I've been using it for five months now and have barely made a dent in the bushel. It keeps my water the color of sweet tea and is crystal clear.
The only con is that it will significantly up your filter maintenance. The tiny peat particles always seem to end up in the filtration no matter what I do. Im religious about filter maintenance anyway so this isn't too big of a deal for me.
A way I've found to get around this problem somewhat was by cutting the along in my ac110 in half and putting the baggie of peat between the sponge halves. This catches most of the particulate matter.
Edit- oh, and of course you need to thoroughly rinse the peat before it goes in your tank.
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The only con is that it will significantly up your filter maintenance. The tiny peat particles always seem to end up in the filtration no matter what I do. Im religious about filter maintenance anyway so this isn't too big of a deal for me.
A way I've found to get around this problem somewhat was by cutting the along in my ac110 in half and putting the baggie of peat between the sponge halves. This catches most of the particulate matter.
Edit- oh, and of course you need to thoroughly rinse the peat before it goes in your tank.
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I put in 500 grams of peat into my sump and I have no coloring. Been in a while no color. I may add some more or some mopani. I'll put the mopani in my aros grow out. I'll also add the peat.
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How long have you left it there? How large is the amount of water?
I put half a softball sized wad into the filter at a time and if there's no tannins in the water column, it takes 2-3 days to really start getting some color to it. I put my peat into a system that's about 180 total gallons.
