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John — I am so sorry to hear of your loss … I regularly toss a couple of Alder cones in my tanks when I am replacing or adding my Indian Almond leaves. I only observe minor changes in the water quality when I do so. Guess I should pay better attention to this practice.
Hi John.
I too am sorry to hear of your losses.
I do a similar thing with the alder cones when preparing water. So far I have had no problems, but I will be more observant to their effects in future.If you need some P. Nagyi as replacements, I have some young adults you are welcome to try. Let me know.
Hello!
I’m preparing my water as Pawel discribes in his thread about preparing water without peat. With peat or without peat and with elder cones extract – my pH doesn’t seem to get lower than 5,2 at the moment… Measured with electrode and with drop test and photometer …Alder cones can make water too black :huh: .. If too much, no fish can be visible.. So due to this I use it only in the tank, and just a few, if black water is more acceptable for some shy species I can use more, but usually they are strong enough to use only some pieces. Often I have to remove them after week or two, because water start to get the same colour as strong black tea.. However fish do not seem to have any trouble to live their normal life at very dark water, f.e. to catch food, lie eggs.
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