Re: [Killietalk] maleleuca

[Tony Terceira <terceira at ride_ri.net>]

At 06:12 AM 11/19/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> I see a almond leave extract offered in helath food stores. Has anyone 
> every considered using it instead of using the leaves???
> George
>
>         I make an almond leave tea, an oak leave tea, and a peat moss tea 
> by simply putting peat or a few almond leaves in a gallon 
> jar....................I soak the oak leaves in a shoe box, then add them 
> to almost all of my tanks...............  the use the tea and add water 
> until the extract is almost clear...........


        Of course peat tea, ala blackwater tonic has been as is still 
around in LFS . I have  used these teas for an additive to lover pH, and 
antibacterial agent by mixing oak and peat tea for incubating some 
eggs...................  and a " I am at a loss, let me add some to a tank 
of fish that are frustrating me"





Tony Terceira
Scituate, Rhode Island

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