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Long Monday
May. 9th, 2011 09:34 pmBut what Monday isn't long?
More threats of thunderstorms in the forecast, but it remained dry as a bone all day and so far tonight.
Gary added fish to one of our aquaria on Friday, and one of them was dead this morning. He called the pet shop and they said they would replace or credit it but he had to bring back the corpse and a water sample.
So we did that tonight, and they did give him a credit for the fish but tested the water and said it was "off the scale in the low pH direction." So they sold him test strips and buffering powder.
I'm dubious. Our tap water goes through a water softener and ends up loaded with sodium carbonate, which should be plenty of buffering against acidity. He replaces a third of the water every month with distilled water which tests absolutely neutral. We tested the tank when we got home, using the new test strips (I did have some but they were getting old) and it came out to a pH around 6.7 or so, which is low but certainly not "off the scale." All other factors were within acceptable ranges.
Anyway, he can get his replacement fish on Friday when he goes to rehearsal quite near the shop. And I think we'll look for another dealer for the future.
More threats of thunderstorms in the forecast, but it remained dry as a bone all day and so far tonight.
Gary added fish to one of our aquaria on Friday, and one of them was dead this morning. He called the pet shop and they said they would replace or credit it but he had to bring back the corpse and a water sample.
So we did that tonight, and they did give him a credit for the fish but tested the water and said it was "off the scale in the low pH direction." So they sold him test strips and buffering powder.
I'm dubious. Our tap water goes through a water softener and ends up loaded with sodium carbonate, which should be plenty of buffering against acidity. He replaces a third of the water every month with distilled water which tests absolutely neutral. We tested the tank when we got home, using the new test strips (I did have some but they were getting old) and it came out to a pH around 6.7 or so, which is low but certainly not "off the scale." All other factors were within acceptable ranges.
Anyway, he can get his replacement fish on Friday when he goes to rehearsal quite near the shop. And I think we'll look for another dealer for the future.
