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09-06-2003, 06:44 PM
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the vegi filter and TT's are working well, picked up a new test kit
yesterday as mine was over a year old, tested this am Amonia and nitrites both 0 first time I actualy hit 0 usualy get .05PPM Ph staying rock solid at 8 GH thouugh was up from last test 72 degrees or 1255.8 PPM lost two more of the baby butterflys this week but I think I found the culprit an 3 ft garter snake Just big enough to catch and hold them but not big enough to swallow them the ones I thought had died while eating he aparently had just released and they came up trying to breath he has been relocated to a less hospitable home far far away -- John Rutz Z5 New Mexico good judgement comes from bad experience, and that comes from bad judgement see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
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09-06-2003, 07:20 PM
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John, so sorry about the babies: I know how much you were looking forward to
seeing them grow up. I *knew* there was a reason I didn't like snakes . . . Your GH worries me: how did it get that high? How old is your test kit? I find that the older they get, the more inaccurate they become, and usually in a way that is pretty dramatic. Your TT's have kicked in and are working: you're supposed to be at 0 nitrItes. That's one of the things they do so well! Lee "John Rutz" wrote in message ... the vegi filter and TT's are working well, picked up a new test kit yesterday as mine was over a year old, tested this am Amonia and nitrites both 0 first time I actualy hit 0 usualy get .05PPM Ph staying rock solid at 8 GH thouugh was up from last test 72 degrees or 1255.8 PPM lost two more of the baby butterflys this week but I think I found the culprit an 3 ft garter snake Just big enough to catch and hold them but not big enough to swallow them the ones I thought had died while eating he aparently had just released and they came up trying to breath he has been relocated to a less hospitable home far far away -- John Rutz Z5 New Mexico good judgement comes from bad experience, and that comes from bad judgement see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
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09-06-2003, 08:08 PM
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John Rutz wrote:
the vegi filter and TT's are working well, picked up a new test kit yesterday as mine was over a year old, tested this am Amonia and nitrites both 0 first time I actualy hit 0 usualy get .05PPM Ph staying rock solid at 8 GH thouugh was up from last test 72 degrees or 1255.8 PPM lost two more of the baby butterflys this week but I think I found the culprit an 3 ft garter snake Just big enough to catch and hold them but not big enough to swallow them the ones I thought had died while eating he aparently had just released and they came up trying to breath he has been relocated to a less hospitable home far far away Hope you have no more losses. -- Bonnie NJ http://home.earthlink.net/~maebe43/ |
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10-06-2003, 12:56 AM
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Lee Brouillet wrote: John, so sorry about the babies: I know how much you were looking forward to seeing them grow up. I *knew* there was a reason I didn't like snakes . . . Your GH worries me: how did it get that high? How old is your test kit? I find that the older they get, the more inaccurate they become, and usually in a way that is pretty dramatic. Your TT's have kicked in and are working: you're supposed to be at 0 nitrItes. That's one of the things they do so well! Lee the GH is absolutly on the mark,, that is perfectly normal for my water if it goes hi it goes to 8.5 and no higher John Rutz Z5 New Mexico good judgement comes from bad experience, and that comes from bad judgement see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
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