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Re: Leaf litter in the aquarium
When fall or winter comes around, ask local killinuts or this list to gather
a few. Oak leaves stay on the trees until spring and are fairly easily
collected and cleaner then. Or toss a bag into the back of the car until
passing a park, forest preserve or vacation trip this summer.
You are really a killie nut when you can look at any forest, meadow,
basement, Dollar Store, K-mart or any of an number of other places and first
ask, "what do they have for my killies?"
All the best!
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Aquì <ohimo at hotmail_com>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: Leaf litter in the aquarium
Are there any places where I can actually buy leaves? Like maybe a craft
store? I live in an apartment, and I don't have a yard. Besides that,
there aren't any oaks around here.
>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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