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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V4 #492
Roger Miller wrote:
> I'm surprised by the relatively low-light conditions advised for
> Echinodorus and Sagittaria.
The info came from an aquatic plant book. I take all that type of info with a
grain of salt.
> Is it your experience that plants in those general grow well at the low
> end of the lighting range?
It depends on what "well" means. <g>
> I find that they tend to "reach"
"Growing tall" might be "well" to some people
> and get ugly,
I agree, that's not "well" to me either.
> Is it your experience that plants in those general grow well at the low
> end of the lighting range?
I don't have any experience with that. <g> Last time I checked, we had at least
1000 lux at the substrate in areas that weren't shaded.
> Also, some Crypts are definitely *not* low-light plants and trying to
> maintain them at the low end of the lighting range can only fail. I guess
> this is just the inherent result of generalization.
Yes, the chart was extremely general. But at least it was *some* data.
George Booth in Ft. Collins, Colorado (booth at frii_com)
http://www.frii.com/~booth/AquaticConcepts