using spaghnum to lower pH, good or bad?

[Symbiot]

well, as subj. says

i seem to remember having read, that spaghnum wasn't good for shrimps..

is this true? It'd make my day a lot easier, if spaghnum didnt affect shrimp.



any ideas`? thoughts? on this...

[bochr]

I have peat in my tanks with Macrobrachium, Caridina and Neocaridina.
All the shrimps look happy and are breeding.
The algae-eaters seem to eat the peat or things on the peat.

Hej fra Danmark :)

[Symbiot]

hm.. ok...
have asked on a few forums elsewhere as well.
I have used peat myself, but as i said.. i think i remember..etc.

Hej bo. og Velkommen til!

[dom]

i dont think peat and spaghnum is the same. And spaghnum won't drop the PH.... :undecided

[Robert]

Hi,
peat is a kind of not completely rotten yet mix of plants, mainly Sphagnum mosses. Sphagnum is the name of a genus of mosses, often called "peat mosses". Live Sphagnum mosses exchange ions with their environment e.g. H3O+ ions which lower the pH drastically. If they would have any bad effects on our shrimps, I don't know.

But these mosses won't survive if you keep them completely submerged. They prefer to prefer semi-submerged, so parts of the stem grows above the water-line. BTW, these mosses have no roots and while the end of the stem rots, the top grows healthy out of the water. These mosses are also adapted to a very low pH, too low for our shrimps. So best would be to keep the moss in another tank and add only the water of the moss tank into the shrimp tank (best would be into an extra tank with a few hardy shrimps like cherries to test the effect at first).

regards

Robert

[silane]

Hi,
peat is a kind of not completely rotten yet mix of plants, mainly Sphagnum mosses. Sphagnum is the name of a genus of mosses, often called "peat mosses". Live Sphagnum mosses exchange ions with their environment ae.ga. H3O+ ions which lower the pH drastically. If they would have any bad effects on our shrimps, I don't know.


Probably, is large change in PH causes shrimps to death like any PH down agent does, should not be Sphagnum peat moss alone.

[NanoDave]

I have peat in my tanks with Macrobrachium, Caridina and Neocaridina.
All the shrimps look happy and are breeding.
The algae-eaters seem to eat the peat or things on the peat.

Hej fra Danmark :)

Just curious what algae eaters do you have in the tank and do they affect the shrimplets?

[bochr]

Algae-eaters = algae eating shrimps (caridina/neocaridina).
No fish in those tanks :)