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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V2 #659



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> Aquatic Plants Digest      Sunday, April 20 1997      Volume 02 : Number 659
> 
> In this issue:
> 
>         CO2 kit
>         looking for plants
>         Re:Spirulina
>         Re: Culturing Daphnia
>         Re: spamming
> 
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> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 19:19:47 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Griff1324 at aol_com
> Subject: CO2 kit
> 
> I have a question for all you CO2 buffs out there!  I am just starting to
> really get into aquarium plants and so far i have been adding CO2 via yeast
> method.  I am looking to get a " more sophisticated" CO2 setup.  While I was
> at the local fish store today, i noticed they got in a Tetra CO2 complete
> system for aquariums up to 55 gal. (thats what it said on the box). The
> selling price for the system is right around $160. US (not bad..huh?)!  Well
> anyway I was wondering if any of you people out there have heard anything on
> this system?  I would apreciate ANY and ALL feed back on this system good or
> bad!  Thanks for the help!
> 
> Chris Simmons
> Erie, PA
> aka...Griff1324 at aol_com
> 
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> 
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 19:31:37 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Griff1324 at aol_com
> Subject: looking for plants
> 
> I am just starting to turn my 55 gal tank into a "underwater garden" but
> buying the plants from a local pet shop is very expensive (and i'm kinda
> short on funds)!  So i thought it wouldn't hurt to post this on here and see
> if anyone has ANY kind of plants that they would be interested in donating to
> me!  I will pay the shipping for the plants!
> Please e-mail me at Griff1324 at aol_com if you have some plants that you would
> like to give up!
> 
> thanx
> Chris Simmons
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 18:42:42 -0500
> From: krombhol at felix_teclink.net (Paul Krombholz)
> Subject: Re:Spirulina
> 
> David Webb wrote:
> 
> >>Anyways, one thing I did that the list might be interested in is I set
> >>up a corner box filter, but not having any live biomedia to fill it
> >>with, I stuffed it full of live spirulina growing in my daphnia tank.
> >
> >>The quarantine tank is next to my daphnia tank and both get twin-tube
> >>24hx7d lighting, so I suspect the spirulina in the box filter will do
> >>quite well as a photosynthetic, nutrient-removing filter media.
> >
> >>Comments?
> 
> I thought that Spirulina was a single-celled bluegreen alga.  David, are
> you sure that Spirulina is what you stuffed in your in your filter box?
> >From what you said, it sounds like you put some kind of filamentous alga
> in.  Could it have been Spirogyra?
> 
> Paul Krombholz                  Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS  39174
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 18:57:26 -0500
> From: krombhol at felix_teclink.net (Paul Krombholz)
> Subject: Re: Culturing Daphnia
> 
> >Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 00:53:43 GMT
> Sparrow <spug at intlog_demon.co.uk> wrote, Apr 19:
> 
> >Tell us more, please, about the cultivation of spirulina, I am having no
> >>success with daphnia culturing..... Could this be the answer?
> >
> 
> Daphnia culturing shouldn't be hard.  They multiply on the algae in green
> water.  To get green water just keep some fish with no filtration in a well
> lit tank that has few or no plants.  When the water becomes green, transfer
> portions of it to your Daphnia tank.
> 
> Paul Krombholz                  Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS  39174
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 20:41:15 -0500
> From: wursterb at intrepid_net (Bob Wurster)
> Subject: Re: spamming
> 
> George Booth wrote:
> >Have people noticed an increase in junk e-mail recently?  I'm
> >wondering if someone is pulling addresses from the APD for the purpose
> >of spamming.  I haven't posted much in the news groups recently...
> >
> >George
> 
> I opened a new account with a local ISP a few months back, and have yet to
> receive a single piece of spam e-mail, so I doubt that George's problem is
> a result of being on the APD mailing list. I have kept my old AOL account
> for accessing Usenet, and get -TONS- of junk there, even though I just lurk
> on the newsgroups. I can't remember the last time I posted. I would be
> interested in hearing off-list about strategies for avoiding or retaliating
> against the spam lists. Is it possible?
> 
> One idea I have had for a political solution to the problem is for all
> spam-haters to start forwarding their unwanted mail to their congressmen
> and senators, including a note asking for legislative action. I, for one,
> am really sick of wading through all of that crap. It seems ridiculous that
> I can't make full use of my new account for fear of an avalanche of
> messages from a bunch of weasels. Sorry to be off-topic, but this subject
> really touches a nerve.
> 
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Daphnia cultures can be kept alive by adding small amounts of Blood &
Bone meal to the water every week or so.  I had a culture running for
years this way.  Every time I harvested, I fed.