[APD] the non-aquatic plant issue

[Rhonda Wilson <rhonda at naturalaquariums_com>]

This drives me nuts too. It's so dishonest. Most of the time when people 
tell me all their plants are dying and can't grow plants it's because 
they are non-aquatic plants. We just need to keep everyone complaining 
and calling them out. If they got enough bad publicity out of it they 
would change their ways pretty darn fast I bet. It's too bad we can't 
get one of the major national news outlets to pick up an article. I 
wonder if someone wrote something descent and sent it in to the AP if we 
could get some coverage.

Rhonda

> From: "Bill" 
>
> REDRAGON40 posted, in part:
>
>   
> > > . . . I am dismayed by the number of non-aquatic plants that are  being
> > > sold to unsuspecting newbies as aquarium plants.  And I don't mean  just 
> > > bog
> > > plants, like Mondo grass,  I mean stuff like Sanderiana, which is  sold
> > > because it is so tough it doesn't rot right away .  . .
> >     
>
> I am too.  From time to time I mention this to the clerks in the fish 
> departments, but they have no control over what is sent to them.
>
> But I am also dismayed that people go into those stores and buy stuff that 
> they don't know anything about.  Do a little research?   Too much work?
> .
> It is worse when there are animals involved, like the soon-to-die tinfoil 
> barbs in a 10 gallon tank.
>
> If people who buy inappropriate merchandise from those stores were smart and 
> didn't buy it, it would soon disappear from the market.
>
> Bill
>   

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