x-ray vision or load of crap?

[ashhhh]

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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>Ash.....<
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>Edited by: ashhhh at: 15/7/05 19:05<
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[aquariumwarehouse]

yes<
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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

[ashhhh]

    duh..... but this person was apparantly using no tesing equipment whatsoever just sight with there eyes.....<
>so they reckoned Cheers<
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>Ash.....<
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>Edited by: ashhhh at: 15/7/05 20:12<
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[hareysfish]

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

[wrk21]

i think the guy has been sniffin to much , PH up.<
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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.  

[sealord1au]

or maybe the other forum in full of ****<
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>Darren  

[here fishie fishie]

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>or when his fish started to
eath heavy???   <
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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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A very amusing read to say the least.<
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>George