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    Default Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    Was thinking about getting one of these for my discus. Anybody ever used one or had any luck or back luck with them? Just wondering. Thanks.

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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    Do you have hard water? Is that why you want to use these products. Black water extract makes your water soft and acidic. If you're not raising young discus then try it out but if you are then it's not necessary with the amount of water changes.

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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    Discus don't need to be in soft and acidic water. They'll be perfectly happy in hard water

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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    I have 3 month olds. My water is hard out of the tap but it has settled in the tank to soft but not like really soft. Ph out of the tap is over 8 but tank water settled to 7.2. I was just curious if anybody had tried it. It looked interesting.

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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    You can give it a try once your discus are adults. That's a pretty significant ph shift. Are you aging your water? How many water changes are you doing? What percentage? Just curious 7.2 Is not really soft water.

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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    No
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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    To answer the question asked....No I've never used either product

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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    I've used both, but like the Kent better. Mainly used it on my wilds, and at times reconstituting RO water. Can be expensive if you change a lot of water...Bill

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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    No I dont age the water it comes straight from the tap. We do 20% changes every other day and the ph never shifts because we dont do huge changes I guess. I just dont have the resources or the space for aging water. I always check the water before and after and it never changes. The tap water may be different now I was testing it after putting in the tank when I was cycling my new filter before adding fish. I havent actually tested the tap water except for ammonia. But they do fine. Everybody eats well and swims around ok. I had never heard of anyone trying the blackwater stuff but its always on backorder so I figured somebody must use it lol.

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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    Quote Originally Posted by blueluv View Post
    7.2 Is not really soft water.
    I knows its not really soft its kind of in between really soft and hard its where its always been too.


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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    Like William Palumbo and many others that have wild discus, that's mainly the ones that use it quite often.

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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    Oh my... pH level does not determine softness of water..

    It don't come out of tap hard then turn soft as it ages
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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    pH is acidic or alkalinity of water
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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    Quote Originally Posted by warlock4169 View Post
    pH is acidic or alkalinity of water
    I had some bottles left over from a few years back....now after reading some info. here, I will not use it any longer due to $$$ :-) or if I ever use RO/DI. I age my water , and all seems well here in Sunny Vero BEach, Fl.

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    Default Re: Anybody here used Amazon Rain or Kent Blackwater Extract?

    Quote Originally Posted by warlock4169 View Post
    Oh my... pH level does not determine softness of water..

    It don't come out of tap hard then turn soft as it ages
    Correct. TDS determines that
    Quote Originally Posted by warlock4169 View Post
    pH is acidic or alkalinity of water
    Agreed
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