On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 05:38:08 GMT, "Akvaristen"
wrote:

Three days after, the mixing tank with 32 gl tap water and peat moss has
pH=6.4 and KH=6 or 71 mg/l of CO2 according to Chuck's table
(http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/art_plant_co2chart.htm). The water is quite

You need to read the webpage that the chart/calculator is on.

Somewhere in there it says "IF YOU AREN'T INJECTING CO2, then you will
not have more than 3-4ppm CO2".

Mixing peat into the water does not magically create CO2. It just
messes with the pH/KH/CO2 relationship.



Chuck Gadd
http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua