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lacking test strips, will a kit for testing ph in a swimming pool work?
i have a pool shop down the street
where do you find strips locally ?
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Most pharmacies will carry them, pool strips are very unreliable and have a very short shelf life.
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And if you wanna worry a lot less about pH, drop a fistful of crushed oyster shell (feed store chicken supplemental) into your ferms. PH correction on the fly.

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Mine didn't, so I bought a couple of packets of evil bay and they work fine
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Beer brew stores have them. There is a lot in one container and will last for years.
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what T-Pee said, picked shells out of the yard, rinsed off and into fermentor. i refuse to worry about PH issues or buy more stuff, if i don't have to.
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T-Pee wrote:And if you wanna worry a lot less about pH, drop a fistful of crushed oyster shell (feed store chicken supplemental) into your ferms. PH correction on the fly.

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I picked up a coffee grinder at a yard sale & then save((d) up egg shells like a couple dozen worth, grind 'em to a powder & add + - half a cup to my ferment. And then, forget about it

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I get my shells at the beach and chuck them in whole
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thanks for the shell advice
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Ok, somebody explain the shell thing please. Seems like everyone knows the trick but me :crazy:
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Oyster shell is nothing but calcium. Added to a ferment it dissolves as necessary to maintain a neutral pH.

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Ahhhh awesome. Thanks
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I may be missing something here... Calcium may buffer a bit but normally will RAISE pH, correct? Like a Tums or Rolaids, you munch them down when your gut is acidified because you got a TTB letter in the mail.

Wouldn't the ground shells potentially jack the pH up into unhealthy levels?
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BigSwede wrote:I may be missing something here... Calcium may buffer a bit but normally will RAISE pH, correct? Like a Tums or Rolaids, you munch them down when your gut is acidified because you got a TTB letter in the mail.

Wouldn't the ground shells potentially jack the pH up into unhealthy levels?
No, that's the magic of shells... When the wash becomes acidic it dissolves the shells until the acidity is neutralized... From that point on they just sit there waiting for the wash to become acidic again... And because they are shells, they can be rinsed and reused until totally consumed...
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but..but.. the AG research i have been doing says the (lower temp?) enzyme likes a lower PH (4.5?) (i'm being vague because i don't have my notes and going from memory)...the point being....initially lower the PH then once the enzyme has finished the conversion job, then toss some PH up to neutralize? is that the takeaway here?

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