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Re: JAVA MOSS
Or a long necked wine bottle will work as well and look better than a salad
dressing bottle. Also holds more liquid. Regards
erny
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From: "Wright Huntley" <huntley1 at home_com>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: JAVA MOSS
>
>
> Barry Cooper wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jeremy,
> >
> > It occurs to me that as a Fisher rep you might be able to help me get
hold
> > of a couple of long neck flasks such as conical flask, say 500 ml
capacity.
> > I would like to try the flask method of harvesting vinegar eels, where
you
> > plug the neck of the flask with filter floss, then top up with water,
into
> > which the eels will migrate.
>
> Long-neck salad-dressing bottles work almost as well and are about $15
> cheaper.
>
> >
> > Also, if you have any Java moss to spare, I'd like to try it again. The
> > batch I got from you before did not do well. I'm not sure why, whether
> > light or the fact that my water has salt in it.
>
> I doubt if it is the salt. I keep Java moss in brackish tanks at a SG up
to
> 1.015, and it lives. It just does not thrive. It is supposedly an
estuarine
> plant with a lot of solt tolerances in some parts of its native range.
> [Likewise, but a bit less so with Java fern.]
>
> It does like some hardness in the water, so you might add a bit of Epsom
> salt for that, if your local water is dead soft. Ca would probably be even
> better. Growth rate, but not health, seems light dependent, tho. Lots of
> light and food and it grows fast. Dim shoebox and it stays static but
richly
> green.
>
> Wright
>
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