Lowering My Ph?

[Brahmza]

Curious about what ways I can effectively and safely lower my pH. My tap water is around 7.4, trying to get my tank to anywhere under 7. I heard aging tap water is a good way to lower its pH, but after its in the tank and cycles for a bit with my aeration, wouldn't the PH just go back up anyways? The whole ' More o2 and less Co2' thing? Just curious if there are other methods than picking up distilled water for water changes? Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[techen]

Your PH is quite a good PH to start with, I see no problem with it. Messing with PH however can be a pain and cause fish deaths if it spikes or gets out of control, Unless your getting fish that love low PH I'd take the 7.4

 

[Brahmza]

Well, I'm working on a set up to breed German blue rams, which like it around 6.5.

 

[mike455555]

i need to lower mine as well, did a test and its at 8.3, which is mad, my plants are melting from it

 

[MissLori]

Have you thought about filtering your water through peat moss and mixing that in slowly to bring it down? My tap water has a pH of 8.0 to 8.3 depending on the time of year, and since I keep and breed rams I have to keep it low as well.