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Qualifying questions



How about:

Please answer as many as possible of the following questions.  We realize that
in some cases you may not know the answer.  Do not let that discourage you,
answer as many as you can:

1. What size tank do you have?   _____ US gallons or _____ liters
2. What depth?  _____ inches or _____ cm

3. What substrate (gravel, sand, or ???)? ___________________________  
4. What particle size? ______ mm x ______ mm

5. What kind of lights do you have over your tank? ___________________
6. What is your lighting schedule?  ________________________________

7. How many and what size fish do you have in your  tank?  ____________
   ____________________________________________________________
8. Would you say you feed them lightly or heavily? ____________________
9. What kind of food? ___________________________________________

10.  Do you add (inject) CO2? _____________

11.  Do you add any fertilizers (describe as completely as possible if so)
   ___________________________________________________________

12.  Please indicate test values for as many of the following water
constituents as possible (tell units used):

   pH
   KH
   CO2
   Ca
   Fe
   N
   PO4
   K
   any others you know

13.  Now describe the symptoms or problems you are having:  ___________
   ___________________________________________________________
   ___________________________________________________________
   ___________________________________________________________
   ___________________________________________________________
   ___________________________________________________________
   ___________________________________________________________

Dave Gomberg, Experimenta      San Francisco CA USA   gomberg at wcf_com