[RML] Carbonate hardness

Larry Stein (lstein at his.com)
Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:48:50 -0500

ok all you brilliant fish mongers out there... how can you raise the KH
without raising the PH??????

My tap water has a KH of 1 degree of KH hardness but I would love to have
it around 5 degrees, if I add a KH builder type chemical my PH goes up to
something over 8 which is to high for even the ugly fish in my tank... when
I leave the water alone and allow the KH to stay at 1 degree and my PH
hovers around 7.0-7.2 my fish are happy but not happy enough for spawning
and my plants and certainly not as happy as when the water is 5 degrees of
KH or higher...

So, in conclusion I am stumped and stoned... or as I usually say in the
immortal words of one of the US greatest statesman Patrick Henry ----

GIVE ME AMBIGUITY ----
OR GIVE ME SOMETHING ELSE....