Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V6 #230

["David Gordon" <thegordons80 at hotmail_com>]

Hello
          this is my first time to respond to your comments as I have read 
may over the years.I may be new to plants under glass,I have been a ponder 
for 11 years.I own WeatherWood Water Gardens.Many of the plants you tank 
indeed are bog or marginal plants.And nature has a cure for all things it is 
called levels.Frog bit,duck weed,azola all are a part of the picture.Getting 
height  and leaf spread is too.I too,believe in less chemicals and more 
nature.An all of you have 100% more time in tank work but I have had tanks 
from a kid on maybe not as large or fancy as yours.Now I raise the water 
plants for ponds and local friends who keep plants and fish.I may not be the 
best operation like the pretty tanks I have seen but I know in the 
greenhouses the large tank plants need above shade more than anything.My 
algae all but vanishes with a few cheap oxygenators at the top of the 
tanks.Plants love light ,just not as strong as in the greenhouse.The plants 
used as marginals you use could be changed to lower light marginals.I have 
two tanks in full sun and very little to no algae.This may not be the point 
of your tanks you may want to beat the odds and have things both ways and 
chemicals would do the trick.But for those who want it to work naturally , 
there is a choice.I have three large greenhouses that run themselves 1/3 is 
the plants you grow under water.I am not a "expert" I just think there is 
room for other ideas like the other writer has stated.

Also I have duck weed if you still need some I will give it to you just the 
shipment cost.If you have fish they will eat it up(it becomes a treat to 
Koi)
      PattiAnn Gordon/WeatherWood Water Gardens Two River,WI
       thegordons80 at hotmail_com


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