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Re: Hope for MTS sufferers
Wright writes:
> If the acid fizzing you mentioned happens with your gravel in the absence of
> any snails, it is the reason your "soft" water isn't doing them in. A lot
of
> aquarium gravel contains limestone or shell chips that provide a good
source
> of shell material for the snails, while only slowly hardening your water.
> Down in the substrate, the GH will be far higher.
My substrate is nuetral. The fizzing was the shells cooking down.
As for babies in the plants, I will put my plants in a bare-bottomed tank for
a week, and watch what happens.
Bob Dixon