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Re: In praise of peat plates.
Guy Wren wrote:
>
> I've just spent a pleasant half hour rubbing peat plates and I knew
> you'd want to hear about it! No, seriously, as the subject of peat
> sources crops up now and then I'll put my tuppence worth in. The plates
> I'm using are Hagen, and are meant to be placed under gravel to
> encourage plant growth. I reckon you'd have to be Bill Gates to actually
> use them for this purpose in a 4' tank, but for someone like me who
> doesn't need vast quantities of peat I think they're ideal.
snip...
Over here, we have a product called Jiffy Peat Pellets that are very
economical compared to the peat plates. Each pellet expands to be about a
cup of wet peat, when microwaved to boiling, and costs something like
US$0.10-0.15 each in small quantity. They too are stick free, and provide a
lot of fine stuff if you are doing small *Fundulopanchax* that like a lot of
that. I rinse most of the fines out in a fishnet for my true annuals, so it
stirs up less when they get overactive. For Fp. like FIL I just use a
brine-shrimp net.
Removing the plastic mesh *before* boiling saves burned fingers, I found.
;-)
Wright
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