Entries from September 2009 ↓

I heard Oregon Oil is good, has anyone tried that? is honey any good? tea? or gargling with water n salt and if so how many times per day??

salt water rinses as often as it hurts. honey and lemon tea is good as well. mint tea is good too.

When you buy the frozen orange juice, you add water to it obviously, does adding a lot of water or adding a lesser amount of water make it more/less acidic? (I’m not a chemistry person)

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What does de-ionised water have to do with measuring the resistance of a heating element in an electric kettle and measuring the initial and final temperatures? Im lost.. Please help its for chem homework.

De-ionised water containing no ions is an excellent insulator, It is free of ions (electrolytes), thus not affecting the meauring the resistance of a heating element.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purified_water

A few years ago I was diagnosed with severe ulcerative colitis and was hospitalised. Before that I had been on many drugs, anti inflamatories, anti depressants all sorts.

After going through virtually ALL of the OTC supplements and facial regimes, I decided to take a deeper look at my acne. I figured, since I had been on so many drugs, I may have a fungal overgrowth in my body. I had a ‘hair test’ done and the main stressor in my body, was indeed fungal in nature. Possibly candida. I went on a three month candida diet, excluding almost all sugar, the only sugar I ate were natural occuring sugars in vegetables like spinach, drank a hell of a lot of alkaline filtered water and took garlic and pau d’arco supplements.
Result?
NOTHING

I think thought, I may naturally just have an excessively oily face. So I started taking vilantae B5 from evolution X. I must admit, this did clear my acne a small amount. At the same time I was using Acne Free skin care routine. This combination did not rid me of acne, but it cleared it up about 40%.

I then decided I couldn’t afford this anymore. £30 per bottle of vilantae is far too expensive!
I thought, maybe due to my colon and digestive problems in the past, I may have a toxic colon, or my liver my be struggling to get rid of toxins, thus it is excreting them via my skin.

So I did a 5 day liver detox (very unpleasant) and then went on to do a three day apple cleanse, taking anti fungal enemas everyday (the same as acne free in 3 days routine). The result? I noticed ONE pimple dissapeared, the rest stayed and my face stayed the same.

I then decided to do a colon cleanse, and purchased (cautiously) the colon cleansing kit from blessed herbs. I did the whole cleanse, and although it did work, nothing has changed with my face! Infact, today my face has broken out even more sad.gif.

The colon cleanse involved a completely raw diet three days up to the cleanse, then five days of apple juice. I am now still eating a raw diet but my face looks terrible!

I have been on accutane and all the others…I dont want to go back on medication for it. The accutane messed my liver up.

I really don’t know what to do anymore, I am at my wits end. Someone please help sad.gif. I am so frustrated and lost so much self esteem.

Help!?

i have severe acne too… the best face wash supplies i have found are the Clean and Clear Advantage line… its a 3 step program.. a wash, lotion and spot treatment… there is other parts you can buy like a toner, an exfoliating scrub, a scar treatment and a few others i recommend starting out with the 3 piece kit using that for a few weeks and then adding in what you feel your skin might need…

when i started to use it my skin began to feel much better. it was softer and just looked better… within a week people were noticing that my face was clearing up

you can find the products at a walmart or any pharmacy

hope this helps

alkaline water neutralizes harmful acid wastes stored inside the body, thus it helps to restore pH balance.
Moreover, alkaline water is a powerful antioxidant – which means it is able to retard the aging process.

Distilled water: Distillation removes healthy minerals, especially calcium and magnesium. Long term consumption of such de-mineralized water can be harmful to the body system and result in mineral deficiencies.

I just came across them in my search. I think they’d look great in my tank once it’s ready for them in a few weeks (20 gal). Do any of you have experience with them?

They’re pretty much the same, except under "care level" the Blue is "difficult" while the Gold is "moderate."

Minimum Tank Size: 20 gallons
Temperament: Peaceful
Water Conditions: 72-79° F, pH 5.0-7.0, KH 5-12 (another website says 73-86°F – Is that a huge deal???)
Max. Size: 3"
Diet: Omnivore
Family: Cichlidae
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Also, in another question someone recommended Proper Ph. Would that be something I should try?

"Perfect for salt water, brackish, and African cichlid aquariums. Proper pH automatically adjusts and holds aquarium water at pH 7.0, 7.5, or 8.2. Increases carbonate hardness and adds electrolytes. Proper pH also contains aloe vera, a proven natural stress reducer and healing agent of aquarium fish."
Gold: https://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=830+889+2520&pcatid=2520
Blue: https://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=830+889+1084&pcatid=1084
Proper pH: http://www.petco.com/product/4064/Aquarium-Pharmaceuticals-Proper-pH.aspx
Thank you, Nosoupforyou! This is really helpful. I’m glad someone here knows what they’re talking about. <3

Blue and gold rams are very beautiful Rams but with all rams they need a well established tank before they can be put in. I wouldnt advise putting them in a newly cycled tank. Apart from this, as long as the water quality is fine, then rams should survive in most conditioned tap water’s PH level although closer levels to their natural PH may encourage breeding.

I would not suggest you get more than 2 and it is best to keep them as a pair (male and female), preferably ones that have already paired off.

Rams should not be kept with any small fish or elaborate finned fish, because they will either eat them or be aggressive to them, they can be territorial, more so during spawning.

I suggest you take a look at the Bolivian Rams as well, these are much more peaceful community fish and much smaller, but still keep them to 2 (m&f), the bolivian Ram is also easier to pair off they aren’t as fussy

hi im 18 i dont eat breakfast, i eat late at night, i dont eat nothing till like 10:00 or 9:00. I eat junk food alot, i eat whole wheat bread alot but lately i’ve ate white bread alot, and it been giving me stomaxch problems i dont eat good at all like i dont have a meal course at all, i sleep late due to computer, im a virgin, on Nov i bought meatball marinara with italian bread footlong in subway, and slept after that and woke up with left side pain in stomach and it stop and came back this year like jan 3 or 4 . i dont drink water like i should only minute maid, those corn syrup drinks like Ssips, which is bad for me, one time i bought a plate of cooked porked chicken and drank a glass of C&C grape soda and next day my stomach was like war gas GAS GAS GAS ALL OVER INTESTINES, it was so loud like whoa, my mom said eat healthy eat vegetables i do but not anymore, i know it bad today i bought pomegranate juice pure in health food store, and im a female my period finished on saturday. and like 2 days ago my left side hurts with gas and i hear it radiated to the right side upper right side, and like the side hurts it never happen before so my mom bought a colon cleanse and liver cleanse and i took it today and yesterday and well t takes time to go into effect, my back hurts also it like a bacteria infection, i only ate yogurt today. i need like a nutrionists who can guide me in eating good food, likw what should i buy? what should i eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner please tell me, my mom has stomach problems it runs in the family and it’s bothering me like burning sensation, gassy, bloated, and i never had that problem it not so severe i give it an 8 , a friend whose a herbal practioner said my alkaline balance is i guess way to high get it back it normal size by eating right but how should i start? like the left pain in my stomach went to the right side with back pain and like why??? what should i do?

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/diverticulosis/

check out this link, there have been many studies done on processed foods and the link to all your symptoms. It also shows that you are at a key age for this – diverticulitis

its a newly cycled 40 gallon tank and I have had it cycled with fish for about a month. I only put in a few fish per week. my tank is far from overstalked too. my ammonia is good, nitrate and nitrite are good. I have my water hard and my pH alkaline for my fish requirments. it has recently gotten cloudy……… i do weekly 10-15% water changes. what is going on? i think its a bacteria bloom but i could be wrong. I do have this water clear suff but im scared to use it! what should I do??

Don’t use the water clear stuff. All it does is hide the problem by making the particles in your water clump together and fall the bottom. Keep doing the water changes but try waiting to do it about every week and a half. Because maybe your tank hasnt had time to build up its good bacteria that keeps the water naturally clear. Also wait just a little longer on replacing your filter cartridges too. Trust me you might be surprised. I had the same problem with my new tank too.

Also instead of doing 10% water changes try doing a lil more like 20-25% with a gravel vacuum.

Electrolysis takes two electrodes hooked up to positive and negative battery terminals and puts them in the water, the current running between the electrodes though the water makes H2 and O2 bubbles. Dose this ionize the water?

You can’t alter waters ‘ionization’.
What you refer to as ionized water is the H30+ and OH- ions, which occur in water naturally, as water dissociates to these two ions.
By using electrolysis you are not altering the ion concentration, you are just removing some water and outputting it as H2 and O2 gasses.
The reason ion concentration does not change is because in any given volume of water there is always a constant ratio of hydronium ions (H3O+) and hydroxide ions (OH-) to water, so by removing some water by electrolysis, there will be an excess of hydronium and hydroxide ions, so some will revert back to normal H2O, to return the water back to a state of equilibrium.

Things that can alter waters ionization levels are temperature.
I’m pretty sure (don’t quote me on this though..) that lower temperatures promote an acidic environment (that is the H3O+ ions dominate), and this is why a cold drink of water is nicer to a warm one, as we prefer an acidic taste to a basic taste.

I have extremely hard alkaline water. Ph of 8, Kh & Gh of 300. I got a Brita system and that seemed to help. I mixed tap and filtered water 50/50. My ph is now down to about 7, Kh to about 120, which the scale says is ideal. The nitrates and nitrites are nil. Why is my Gh still so high? Nothing changed. What can I do to fix it?
Oh, and I have a 20 gal tank. Thanks.

Don’t change a thing, nothing is broken. Stop over complicating or you will only dig yourself a hole.

Your numbers are suitable for almost all the fish we can get our hands on. My own ph is 8.3, has been for years. My fish are long lived, my tanks are disease and problem free. Some fish like my "soft water" nicaraguensis have even bred for me in my water.

Trust me, leave your water alone and just use it as it is out of the tap (treated with conditioner of course). Complicate things less and less will go wrong.

Just so you know, the numbers you see ‘recommended’ for fish mean nothing, they are actually just an estimation of the fishes natural habitat. We can account for the fact that they are more tolerant than this, and that most of our fish are captive bred anyway. Seriously, you are wasting a lot of effort and time messing with the water when you don’t really need to.