PH problem....solution?

[amazongirl]

Most natural water systems will not have high nitrates level without a pollution source and the animals living in the natural water systems certianly did not evolve with and are not adapted to this polution source (us)

 

[dookie]

I had a customer once who setup an automatic water changer that replaced 5 gallons of water daily in a 180 gallon tank. The results over 2 years was amazing. The fish (an arowana) grew to an amazing size but the scales where damaged from the RO water. After switching back to normal tap water the scales all repaired themselves over time.

 

[Billy_m24]

I lost 4 arowana befor I made a simple water changer, I simply drilled a whle at one end of my tank where I wanted the water leve at and on the other end I ran I 1/4 water line and hooked up a water filter from lowes and attaced a drip emiter on the line comming out of the filter. you can find caulator on line for water changers I change out 50% a week. my 7 in is now over a foot and I've have him for about 4 months now

 

[keepinfish]

a regular sherlock
LOL
interesting stuff.
I think in the Amazon the plant life would rip the nitrates out pretty quickly given how poor the soil is there.

another quote i found.... thought it was interesting!

Nitrates (to me) are a relative thing. You see a LOT of people swear up and down that high nitrates kill fish. Then you go and look at real world water quality of places doing well with rays and (I kid you not) you can see levels over 1000ppm.

High nitrates are a result of natural process. Feeding animals means creation of ammonia, broken down into nitrite, then nitrate. Nitrate can build up in the system several ways - the most common being biological debris hainging out in dead spots in your water.


In short, I don't worry about them as much as most will.

 

[jwolf]

try put a big log in there