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Re: Peat
Back when Amano's stuff was being sold by ADA, peat was listed as one of the
ingredients in his "power sand" substrate. I used a little of it in my 55
gallon tank because it is purported to have some chemicals that will help
make minerals in clay available to plants. I'm only talking a few fistfuls
tossed into two inches of substrate. If you don't mind soft water, it isn't
dangerous at low levels. The tank has been going for a year and a half, and
I don't see any problems, except small gobs of black stuff do appear on
occassion when I uproot a plant. It washes off, and it is only because of
this thread that I have begun to think it might be from the peat. At any
rate, I'm not rushing off to rip the tank down.
Back in the late 70's I had a 55 gallon tank with sub-gravel peat plates
across the entire left half. I had great plant growth on that side, and
couldn't get anything to grow at all on the right side. Again, being young
and slow-witted, I didn't even think about the peat being the cause of my
good luck on the left side. I put it in there to make the water dark for my
angels and Apistos. It was like that two years and I never had a probalem
with the tank.
Bob Dixon