Originally Posted by
brewmaster15
I personally would love to have test kits for this stuff available so we could quantify and qualify D.O.C. effects and methods of removing them if they are something that negatively impacts our fish. We don't even know the rate the D.O.C.s increase in a tank or under what conditions they increase or are inhibited.
I feel like we have made D.O.C.s a boogey man or worse, a catch all acronym for everything that we don't fully understand about water quality.
I agree with Larry, Dan, Willie and the others here that change their water to reduce potential pathogens or chemical compound with Bad MOJO associated with them. The beauty of a water change is that it doesn't matter if you have D.O.C.s, or what kind they are. It doesn't matter if there are parasites, or alot of bacteria. You change the water and you remove them.Period. No science needed, no pHD, and you have the best water quality you can realistically and economically get.
Al