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so I guess that all means you think yes...

colin and Byron are both wrong ...what I wrote is fairly straight forward so I am not going to point anything out . I would just do some real research on buffering systems .

i have never seen it but i read last week that the ada aqua soil is full of stuff like bits of wood and coir ect it can be tricky to work with. There is another product by oliver knot i am thinking of getting it instead.. The laterite .... Which is more like a baked clay but still like soil ...

https://www.ebay.com.au/p/1x-Seachem-Acid-Buffer-600g/1048019674 i am not sure whats in this but, but if you use this plus the chiclid substrate , i would add dissolved cal mg aswell .plus a potassium ph down ,not a nitric acid one but you could include it. And that would be the entire system ...

http://clymer.altervista.org/buffers/phos2.html

https://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/acidbaseeqia/buffers.html or if your into chemical engineering .. there are heaps of java script calculators online for making the buffer or the weak acid and it,s conjugate base ,, i am not sure whats what , say sodium phosphate. And it,s counterparts.

it shouldnt but you would need to add a fair amount of weak acid , for the substrate to buffer with . I have never done a acidic tank ever. I am pretty sure it,s more work to keep a tank buffered on the acid side you need to watch it more because usually it just works against nitric acid . there...

i think it,s got more with what to do with what you make you ph with rather then the buffer itself as cal an mag will also buffer an acidic water and stop your ph from rising . It works both ways ... I have had my ph crash to acidic using chiclid substrate just from nitrate build up .and you...

i think one of my mussels is hatching the larvae , i am fairly sure it is the right time of year..... What do you think...? if you cant really see there is like a stream of little dots pouring out of the mussle they do kinda look different sized and the guppies are hanging out munching on them..

thanks byron,, it was nice of you to notice, i had just done a 80% water change the water was black.. when i went to add carbon to my filter i noticed the pump had stopped working and a really large snail was behind it that a chiclid was trying to eat .. The smell is still in the tank and in my...

i did but not enough. Mostly its from moving it around when i put it in the filter i could feel it grind and crushing. It,s a bit better now i guess it will be clear by tommorow..

if you have big dog check in his bucket of water , i think to grow them you would have to supply and animal to let the skitters bite and grow before the layed eggs ..this isnt very nice getting bitten .. It,s best just to collect them from buckets of water , i find lots can be found in pots full...

i put new activated carbon in my filter , and it,s clouded my tank is it safe ?..