Re: AUS pairs

[Barry Cooper <bjc3 at cornell_edu>]

Have to disagree Lee. My room is kept at mid-70s, and the pH of my water is 
always alkaline. I have very soft water but it comes out of the tap at 
about pH 10.5! It is strongly buffered and never drops below 8 in the 
tanks. Water that has sat on peat for weeks, looking like strong tea, can 
get just below 7. I am not sure what is making it so alkaline or what is 
buffering it, but I have a complete water analysis pending.

The point is, if I put java moss in my tanks, even with a aquarium light 
over them, it dies. Always! Java fern survives and even grows.

Barry

At 06:11 PM 9/1/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>In a message dated 9/1/02 4:43:35 PM, jwwiii at pacbell_net writes:
>
><< a lot of what Sue and others gave me died or just didn't grow
>very well. :-( >>
>
>There are only two reasons why Java moss dies - 1) too warm or 2) too acidic.
>Too warm is anything over about 78 degrees F. Too acidic is anything under
>about 5.0. There is no reason why either condition should be needed except
>occasionally 78 degrees is better for some fish, but that will usually not
>kill, just inhibit Java moss.
>
>Lee Harper
>Media, Pa
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Barry J. Cooper, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University
Adjunct faculty, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University
27505 Riggs Hill Rd., Sweet Home, OR 97386 (bjc3 at cornell_edu)


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