Re: [APD] VALS MELTDOWN

[Vaughn Hopkins <hoppycalif at yahoo_com>]

In my last aquarium, a 125 gallon tank I kept various vals going for 
about three years, always sending out runners, doing their level best 
to grow on every square inch of the substrate.  I used to pull out the 
excess by the handful every couple of weeks.  Based on that experience 
I would say vals live forever!  But, many years ago I had a ten gallon 
guppie tank with lots of vals that were equally vigorous, and, probably 
because I changed the water about every two weeks, they all suddenly 
just died.  I am tempted occasionally to add some to my current 29 
gallon tank just to see what would happen, but I really don't want 
another val jungle to take over the whole tank.

Vaughn H.

On Friday, February 10, 2006, at 08:44 PM, ajit athale wrote:

> Recently, I had complete meltdown of all the vals in outdoor 20gallon
> open tank, for no reason know to me.
> I shifted whatever residue was left to another
> large tank, and am waiting to see if they recover.
>
> There was none of these-"Typcal Val stressers include rapid changes in
> temperature,
> pH or alkalinity"
>
> Do these plants have a lifetime of their own?(mine were about 2yrs 
> old).
>
> ajit
> India.
>
>
>
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