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Re: Leaf litter in the aquarium
You will also want to insure that you clean the leaves or rinse them as them may
have any variety of chemicals from trees that are occassionally sprayed with
fungicide to whatever chemicals may be in the lawn or street you pick them up
from.
Also the more brown or "dead" the leaf the better...I would not recommend using
green leaves..
Mach Fukada wrote:
> I have most often heard that Oak leaves work well. I was looking into
> bringing some back with me while I was in Maryland. However, they should
> be high in tannins and other organic acids, etc. May be a problem if you
> already have soft acid water. Mine is naturally filtered through ferns,
> mosses and dead vegetation (and who knows what else). I was told at one
> time it would be tannin stained right from the tap. I have noticed that
> most fish have problems if the pH crashes so be careful and test it out
> first with some more abundant fish. YMMV.
>
> MTF
>
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Jon Aquì wrote:
>
> > Hey since it seems that a planted tank is out of the question for a
> > Diapteron tank setup, how does one go about reproducing the leaf litter
> > look? If you were to use real leaves, which ones would you use? I think I
> > read somewhere that beech leaves were used for a couple of Apistogramma
> > species, is this what would be used for Diaps, too? Thanks again!
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