RE: Peat

[Tony Terceira <terceira at ride_ri.net>]

         I'm with Brian,


         The mainstay of my fish room is and has been peat for more than 35 
years.  I do use coconut fiber, but it is mixed with peat for some annuals 
with short incubation time,

         I use peat in bags in filters to soften water, I use German long 
fiber peat to soften water, to spawn divers etc.

         I have never found any substitute for spawning most annual fish, 
for incubating eggs to watch development.

         I certainly have use sand, walnut shells, ion exchange resin, 
glass beads, sponges and many more things for spawning fish, but , as far 
as I am concerned, the backbone of a black waster fish room in 
Peat...............  plain and simple...


         Tony Terceira in RI


At 12:17 PM 12/29/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>RJ wrote:
>
> >
> > Most of the people on the cutting edge of the hobby have eliminated peat
> > altogether from their fish rooms.........
> >
>
>Are you serious ? Are you including those specialising in annual killies ?
>
> >
> >...... forget the peat and check
> > the killietalk archives for the modern materials that work much better.
> >
>
>Such as ?  You may prefer to spawn your Nothos over sand, or whatever, but
>what do you then store the eggs in for incubation ? And what about the South
>American substrate divers ?
>
>In my opinion, for spawning annual killies in aquaria there is nothing
>better than peat moss.
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>Brian R. Watters
>University of Regina
>Regina, Sask. S4S 0A2, Canada
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