Fluval Peat Granules, 500 Gram/17.6 Ounce

Peat is use to naturally lower pH and water hardness. This is not going to chemically filter or polish your water. In fact it will turn your water a slightly yellowish color, this is to be expected. If you want to stay away from chemical and naturally lower pH and hardness then this for You. Especially if you keep or plan to keep fish like Cardinal tetras or Discus, well at least attempting to breed Discus. If your just keeping Discus then you should be fine w/o this.

The only thing that I wasn't to happy about was that It does not specify how much to use.

I Do WARN you if your not careful IT WILL DROP your pH way to fast and could kill your fish. I would recommend to start off with a small amount and gradually increase that amount til you get to your desired pH & Hardness Level. If you don't have anything to test your water, get something (I recommend API products) you will need it. Finally this does not come prepackage or in mesh bag. You will need to purchase some.

I use this to bring down the Ph in my tank without shocking the fish. This media brought my ph down to a 6.5 from an 8.2. I use 3 teaspoons in a small mesh bag (you can get these at any party supply store.)in with my other media filter on my AquaClear filter 50gal filter for a 46gal tank. You could also use the toe of an old pair of ladies stockings/ pantyhose to keep the peat in the filter and not the tank.

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This is cleaner and easier to work with than garden peat moss. I also feel it is safer as it is pure and meant for the aquarium. The box may seem small, but you don't need much and last a long time. I put some in a knee high pantyhose tied a knot and put it in the tank. By doing it this way all the pieces stay inside of the pantyhose and doesn't float around the tank. At first it floats, but I pushed it behind the filter stem under the water. In a couple of days the peat moss is wet enough to sink. I noticed the water becomes very soft, but it hasn't lowed the PH. The water does get a dirty, tea stained look and if you are directly above the tank you can smell a little bit of the dirt, but all the fish seem to love it. Fish like the neon tetras that would normally hide behind my plants and rock now come out to the front of the tank.

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I had tried a number of other products like API's water softener pillow to lower the hardness of my tank and never had much success. The hardness of my tank was incredibly hard (both kh and gh) and the ph always hovered in the basic range despite attempting to put more drift wood in to lower it. I finally tried these peat granuals (I got one of the mesh bags and put about half of this box in that bag and into my canister filter). Within perhaps a week or two, it had brought both hardnesses and ph down to ideal readings for my tropical community tank. I am not overly averse to using chemicals to treat a tank if it's what works best, but this just had that Occam's Razor feel that it was 1) Natural, 2) Relatively cheap and 3) Incredibly effective! This has certainly found a permanent place in my filter!

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this is a good product if you choose to have "soft" water for your aquarium fish tank. And also the media lasts for awhile

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