Lowering Ph with Peat Pellets

[Zodiak246]

Can I use these to lower the ph of my aquarium? it is sphagnum peat moss. I want to breed my neon tetras and they use peat moss.

 

 

 

[tolstoy21]

It can, but you also want to use very soft water with negligible GH and KH to amplify its effect. Peat works much better at really driving the Ph down if you have little or no KH in you water. You can really drive it well below 6 this way. So if you can, start with rain water, or RO water, unless you have naturally soft, acidic water. I keep Zebra Acara in RO water with peat pellets in a box filter and the Ph is so low I can't measure it with standard strips or test kits.

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i don't see why you could use them they seem to be made out of peat moss with no fertilizer

if it was me I'd test them just to make sure by puting them in a bucket of water for a few days than testing ammonia nitrite nitrate ph and kh they might stain your water making it impossible to test but its worth a try that would also let you see if they fall apart