[APD] soil substrate.

["josh bjork" <fishytaste at hotmail_com>]

Thank you all for the earnest responses.  After a few tank setups disasters 
I opted to use less soil and have it look cleaner in the mean time.  I'm 
sure other factors are at work here also but the plants seem a bit 
malnourished to my inexperienced eyes.  I try to feed the fish plenty.  From 
what I understand it wouldn't take that many to supply adequate N and P.  As 
long as there's adequate K so it's not the limiting factor.  I realize N can 
be limiting too but i'm ignoring this at the moment.  I guess a real 
question would be, can the smallish amount of soil I used actually be 
depleted of anything  in a year?

I used soil from an old tomato pot.  i thought it would be pretty depleted 
of N and P.  And most of the roots can be sifted out.  It might not be 
optimal but there was no algea blooming.

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