Drastic PH Drop after adding Dritftwood

This morning I added two pieces of driftwood to my 20 Gallon tank that
already had another piece of driftwood in it. Before doing this my PH
was about 7.4 - after adding the additional driftwood almost instantly
my PH dropped to 6.2 and now seems to be hanging around 6.5 - is this
normal for driftwood to make such a big difference like this? Not that
i'm complaining, I just wasn't expecting much of a resutl

What, may I ask, type of wood is it...love to find some too!
jefferson

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 07:20:33 GMT, Squid
wrote:

This morning I added two pieces of driftwood to my 20 Gallon tank that
already had another piece of driftwood in it. Before doing this my PH
was about 7.4 - after adding the additional driftwood almost instantly
my PH dropped to 6.2 and now seems to be hanging around 6.5 - is this
normal for driftwood to make such a big difference like this? Not that
i'm complaining, I just wasn't expecting much of a resutl

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All of them acidify water, but usually very slowly. Are they very big, may I
ask?

Thanks
Kenneth

"jefferson" ???
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What, may I ask, type of wood is it...love to find some too!
jefferson

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 07:20:33 GMT, Squid
wrote:

This morning I added two pieces of driftwood to my 20 Gallon tank that
already had another piece of driftwood in it. Before doing this my PH
was about 7.4 - after adding the additional driftwood almost instantly
my PH dropped to 6.2 and now seems to be hanging around 6.5 - is this
normal for driftwood to make such a big difference like this? Not that
i'm complaining, I just wasn't expecting much of a resutl




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On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 13:38:43 GMT, jefferson wrote:

What, may I ask, type of wood is it...love to find some too!
jefferson


Just 3 pieces I have had for about 5 years now. I beleive they were
all purchased at a couple of LFS. They are pretty heavy and I remember
when first purchased that they didn't need much if any soaking for
sinking. 2 of the pieces are about 12 inches long and have very
brittle wood the other piece is a more smooth type of wood that
doesn't come apart much.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 00:11:41 +0800, "Kenneth Ho"
wrote:

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All of them acidify water, but usually very slowly. Are they very big, may I
ask?


All together inside the tank they stretch across both ends so I would
say about 24" long and about 8" tall and 8" wide.

I did soak the 2 last pieces (since they were in storage for so long)
in deionized water with some water conditioner for about 2 weeks. Not
sure if that had anything to do with it.

The tannins in driftwood will usually lower the pH in a tank. This is
normal. Do not panic.

Squid wrote:

This morning I added two pieces of driftwood to my 20 Gallon tank that
already had another piece of driftwood in it. Before doing this my PH
was about 7.4 - after adding the additional driftwood almost instantly
my PH dropped to 6.2 and now seems to be hanging around 6.5 - is this
normal for driftwood to make such a big difference like this? Not that
i'm complaining, I just wasn't expecting much of a resutl