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Re: Nitrates
- To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
- Subject: Re: Nitrates
- From: Chuck Gadd <cgadd at cfxc_com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:46:10 -0600
- Delivered-To: fixup-Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com@fixme
- References: <200008161948.PAA28738 at actwin_com>
> The two tanks with nitrate problems have some pretty big fish. How does the
> relative mass/bulk of your fish compare to mine? Are we comparing two pounds of
> fish to a half pound?
I've got too many rainbows in my 75g: I've got 9 large rainbows (not as big
as your biggest ones, but all around 4 inches, and with fairly deep bodies.)
I've also got 3 smaller rainbows, about the size of the neons. This isn't
counting the new ones I just added. So, it's probably less load than your
rainbow tank, but it's in a smaller tank too.
> Do you use any frozen cubes? My impresion is that a frozen cube (2 in fact) might
> be a lot more food than a pinch or two of dry flakes.
I agree. It's definitely more than the flake food amounts to.
I use frozen food, cubes and slabs. But I always drop the cube or piece of
the slab into a brine-shrimp net, and rinse it until it's competely melted.
This gets rid of all the other junk, and just leaves the brine.
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Chuck Gadd