Drift wood and ph?

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Orthopod

Orthopod

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How much does drift wood drop your ph?

Also, has anyone kept hard water fish like africans with drift wood and been able to reliably keep up the ph and breed them?

Thanks.
 
Depends how hard your water is and how much wood you have and how old the wood is and how long you leave it between water changes and how large your water changes are and and and and!!

A small amount of well soaked wood in a rift lake tank with plenty of coral/shell/etc to help keep the water hard shouldn't have any adverse effects on the pH.
 
imho drift ws / acidifies water. You can dela with it depending on your wtare hardness and normal PH, but....
Imho, again, driftwodd and africans do not belong thogether.
 
Miguel said:
imho drift ws / acidifies water. You can dela with it depending on your wtare hardness and normal PH, but....
Imho, again, driftwodd and africans do not belong thogether.
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Agreed 100%......if the African cichlids are wild. But, if the Africans are bred in captivity, then it doesn't matter what so ever. Most, if not all local fish stores share a single sump for fishes from SA to African hard water. So, to me, it doesn't matter if you add drift wood or not if they are captive bred African cichlids.

Have a fun day.


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None are wc. I'm aware drift wood lowes oh, but I was wondering the extent and if it could be managed adequately with water change, baking soda & Epsom salts.

I have a large piece of drift wood which I enjoy the aesthetics of and would like to attempt to manage the added variable.

Thanks
 
I have driftwood in a few of my african cichlid tanks. I also have lots of oyster shells or crushed coral in them. So the driftwood does not affect the pH of the water.
 
I've had good amounts of it in my 45 and 80 gallon tanks- before having the buffered sand I didn't notice any affect in ph levels in my cichlid setup. I did end up pulling it out though because it didn't go with the look I was trying to achieve.

I bought all my dark brown dw from petco in my early fish keeping days


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I would test the ph and hardness now, then add the wood.take weekly checks to see how much if any change before WC.adding crushed coral to substrate helps buffer, you can also put it in bag added to filter

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