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Re: personal goals with a planted tank
- To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
- Subject: Re: personal goals with a planted tank
- From: "Ellen O'Connell" <oconnel4 at ix_netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:44:09 -0600
- In-reply-to: <200308130918.h7D9IlUb030282@otter.actwin.com>
In setting up my first aquarium with live plants my goal was just to
provide a more natural and healthier environment for the fish. I'm a
cautious person and always do a ton of research before leaping into
anything, so when a display setup at a PetsMart provoked an urge for an
aquarium, I did my ton of reading and was convinced fish would be happier
and healthier with real plants. What attracted me about the display tank
was that it was pretty, and I thought having something like that at home
would be soothing (that's the one feature that didn't really work out, I
can worry about fish as much as about mammals, so soothing isn't very often
the effect peering into my own tanks has on me - I count noses, check
barbels, fins, color, etc.).
Of course, starting out with the live plants led me to a ton of research on
aquatic plants, which brought me to APD, and by that time my first tank was
going through typical this algae and that algae, so my goal then was algae
control. My reading brought me to Dianna Walstad, which gave me the algae
free tanks I wanted and left me to work on pretty.
So today my goals are a natural and healthy environment for fish that's
pretty and easy to maintain. I'm among those who don't want to prune and
fiddle. If I can eliminate stem plants and still have pretty tanks pretty
much algae free, I'll have achieved my goals.
Ellen O'Connell
Parker, CO
mailto:oconnel4 at ix_netcom.com