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Old April 9th 06, 06:32 AM posted to alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc,rec.aquaria.freshwater.plants
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On 09 Apr 2006, the world was enlightened by Dale Henderson's opinion
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"Koi-Lo" writes:

Moments before spontaneously combusting Dale Henderson at
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"Koi-Lo" writes:

"netDenizen" wrote in message
.. .
Finally, others have explained that you should let a glass of
tapwater stand for 24 hours before testing pH, because it may change
due to outgassing etc.
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Ours does. It goes from 7.2 to as high as 7.6 after several hours.


I got you beat. My comes out of the tap at 7.0. But if I run an
airstone in it for an hour it goes over 8.

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They run CO2 gas in the lines to help keep scale down. At least
that's what I was told.


I have a well. Well water is notorious for being full of C02 and for
being very hard.




I used to live in the Poconos in northeast PA and the well water there was
extremely soft (1-2 dKH) with a pH of 6.4. No limestone to make the water
hard.


kev

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