Re: Duckweed vs. Salvinia

["Al Anderson" <killiman at iquest_net>]

How old are your light bulbs.
Try some incandescent light bulbs it might do better.

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From: <Edd.Kray at rf_doe.gov>
To: <killietalk at AKA_Org>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Duckweed vs. Salvinia


>
> I also love "water sprite" but find it sensitive to water chemistry. In
> Cleveland  ( around 300 ppm TDS) ) it grew like a weed in all my tanks.
> Never had a shortage of it and individual plants would grow to cover a 10
> gallon. Here in Denver (60 ppm TDS)  I struggle to keep it green and
alive.
> The plants that do survive are tiny and split off and then dont grow much
> at all. Obviously something missing in our soft water that made it happy
in
> Ohio's moderately hard water.
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>                     "Tyrone
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> On 7 Jun 2002, at 11:01, Michael Slocum wrote:
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> > If I can ever seperate the duckweed from the riccia my plan was to
switch
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> > over to salvinia. Any reason why that one was never mentioned?
>
> In the humid environment under the tank hood or cover glass salvinia
> and watere lettuce tend to pick up horrible fungal infections and
> just die. Also their light needs are very high.
>
> As far as floating plants go, duckweed and riccia are the best
> bets... then again I've always liked indian fern/water sprite. The
> deep penetrating roots also make for better nutrient uptake.
>
> bye
>
> Tyrone Genade
> tgenade at sun_ac.za
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