Re: Source for peat

• To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
• Subject: Re: Source for peat
• From: Stephen.Pushak at saudan_HAC.COM
• Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 12:25:13 PDT
• Cc: rainford at Charleston_Net, olga at arts_ubc.ca
• In-Reply-To: <199610230739.DAA10317 at looney_actwin.com>; from "Aquatic-Plants-Owner at ActWin_com" at Oct 23, 96 3:39 am

> From: rainford at Charleston_Net (Shon Rainford)
> 
> can peat from a garden store be used in an aquarium?

Garden store peat is typically sphagnum moss. As such it is
spurned by true peat aficionados. It will have a greater biological
oxygen demand (BOD) than real peat. Having said that, I have a friend
who uses sphagnum moss in his tank with good results. The tank
hasn't been set up that long; probably about 6 months. I'm referring
to Bob Hunter's tank so maybe Olga might correct me on the tank
age. Personally, if I wanted to use peat, I think I'd try to find
the real thing but I don't think I'd buy what they sold in the
aquarium stores. It's not that I couldn't afford it; it's sort of
the principle of the matter. Garden stores do sell real peat in
a variety of forms but it's also kinda expensive. I've seen little
pressed disks but know little about them beyond that they're
supposed to be real peat.

Steve

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