I have
currently bought the pH of my water down to 5.5 to induce my discus to
spawn. I change 5 gallons per day at a ratio of 4 gallons peat water to 1
gallons tap water. The water conditions seem to stay very stable, although
I
wouldn't want to go away for a week and not be able to monitor it.


My Discuss were quite merrily spawning (that is before the latest calamities
I wrote you about) at 6.8....

If you have a settled Ph of 5.5 you must have an almost non existant Kh
level - very close to a crash I would have thought - either that or you are
adding CO2 (or still have CO2 in the water from the peat filtering). I'd be
interested to know what you'd get if you take a bucket of your Peat filtered
water and run an airstone in it for an hour....

good luck with the spawing

I.