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Title: x-ray vision or load of crap?
Post by: ashhhh on July 15, 2005, 06:58:00 PM
Last night I was
owsing a post on another forum, it was to do with a newb asking about checking and testing water parameters etc..   anyways, someone replying claimed that they could tell by sight, when there pH had shifted?! (without a test kit and by only looking at the tank), to me this seems abit far fetched. I have been keeping fish for quite awhile and by touching the side of my tank I can get a ''general'' idea of the temperature in the tank, but being able to tell of a pH change by sight? personally I dont think it would be possible and is a load of crap, but I may be wrong.....?     Cheers<
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>Edited by: ashhhh at: 15/7/05 19:05<
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Title: Re: x-ray vision or load of crap?
Post by: aquariumwarehouse on July 15, 2005, 07:35:00 PM
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>its a digtial ph meter <
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>we have them on all systems and i can see my ph  from 10 meters away....<
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>regards kev
Title: Re: x-ray vision or load of crap?
Post by: ashhhh on July 15, 2005, 08:08:00 PM
    duh..... but this person was apparantly using no tesing equipment whatsoever just sight with there eyes.....<
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>Edited by: ashhhh at: 15/7/05 20:12<
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Title: Re: x-ray vision or load of crap?
Post by: hareysfish on July 15, 2005, 09:06:00 PM
usually if the water turns a yellowish shade-tinge usually means the ph has droped unless you have something in the tank to turn it yellow  hope it helps<
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>cheers scott
Title: Re: x-ray vision or load of crap?
Post by: wrk21 on July 15, 2005, 09:38:00 PM
i think the guy has been sniffin to much , PH up.<
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Title: Re: x-ray vision or load of crap?
Post by: on July 15, 2005, 10:54:00 PM
Maybe he has wood leeching tannins, which indicates a lower pH, or his water turns poo color and drops in pH when he doesnt clean it.  
Title: Re: x-ray vision or load of crap?
Post by: sealord1au on July 16, 2005, 08:03:00 AM
or maybe the other forum in full of ****<
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>Darren  
Title: Re: x-ray vision or load of crap?
Post by: here fishie fishie on July 20, 2005, 08:54:00 PM
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>or if he lived in an area with soft water, rather than see the ph change, more predicted the change, as the ph drops over time.<
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>I would probably go for the tannins reason. Let me guess a discus keeper  <
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>Frenchy  "A house full of people is a house full of different points of view"<
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Title: Re: x-ray vision or load of crap?
Post by: on July 21, 2005, 07:41:00 AM
A very amusing read to say the least.<
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>George