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I receive the list messages in digest form. In the To field, it reads
aquatic-plants-bounces+d_guynn=sbcglobal.net at actwin.com. Is this normal, or
is there a problem with my e-mail?
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Subject: Aquatic-Plants Digest, Vol 7, Issue 14
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Today's Topics:
1. To recommend a aquascaping contest in Taiwan (Randolph(pchome))
2. RE: Re: re planted tank calculations (Rick Engstrom)
3. DFW Plantfest in Houston with Luis Navarro (Ben B.)
4. Re: Water, water everywhere (Rachel Sandage)
5. Plants in pots (BoiseBobD at aol_com)
6. Re: Peat in substrate (BoiseBobD at aol_com)
7. Re: Re: Peat in substrate (S. Hieber)
8. Size Pump For Sponge Filters (Bennett, Bill)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:56:55 +0800
From: "Randolph(pchome)" <lzraqua at mss_pchome.com.tw>
Subject: [APD] To recommend a aquascaping contest in Taiwan
To: <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
Dear all,
I'm from Taiwan, and I wanna recommend a aquascaping contest .
please visit http://contest.tapc.idv.tw ^^
--
Randolph Tsai
lzraqua at mss_pchome.com.tw
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:56:44 -0600
From: "Rick Engstrom" <rick703 at mts_net>
Subject: RE: [APD] Re: re planted tank calculations
To: "aquatic plants digest" <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
what is the link to your site.
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: aquatic-plants-bounces+rick703=mts_net at actwin.com
[mailto:aquatic-plants-bounces+rick703=mts_net at actwin.com]On Behalf Of
Clint Brearley
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:29 AM
To: aquatic-plants at actwin_com
Subject: [APD] Re: re planted tank calculations
Just letting you know that I've updated some of the info on my website. It
now has up-to-date calculations for the amount of ferts I'm adding (adding a
bit more now) plus I've outline the "Tom Barr method" on there too, which I
might give a go some day.
Cheers
Clint
----- Original Message -----
From: aquatic-plants-request at actwin_com
Date: Friday, March 5, 2004 0:46 am
Subject: Aquatic-Plants Digest, Vol 7, Issue 11
> hi clint ...
>
> thanks for your prev email with all its tips ... it has taken me
> all this time to track down all the various ongredients" for the
> frets as per your web page ! ....the potasssium nitrate and
> phosphate were the two toughest ones to get ...
>
> i followed some of the links that you kindly recommended ... but
> the mail order hydrophonic houses were both out of stock and
> couldn't tell me when they would next get some in ...i felt very
> discouraged when one said it could be 6 or more weeks before they
> restock .. after many phone calls i found one place here in sydney
> that had them both in stock... and picked them up today
> (sunday).....of course it was right on the other side of town ...
> about 1 hour 15 min drive each way!.... hope these plants REALLY
> appreciate all these ferts :)
>
> i couldn't find purex at any of the local pool shops ... but did
> get what they assured me was exactly the same thing ... it's in a
> granular form .... he said thats the only way it comes ...is that ok?
>
> so now all i need to do is try to work out how much to put in ...
> my tank is 120 litres .. and i have been doing anywhere from a 25%
> to a 50% water change each week ...... just dep on how i feel and
> how late at nite it is! ..... if you think that a 50% change is
> recommended ... and will help the plants better ... then i will
> do that as my regular practice ....i would appreciate your advice
> on this issue if you are able ...
>
> i have read your page on ferts about a zillion times ... in fact,
> its my new "home page " that my browser opens to ...
>
> i am however still having trouble understanding a few things ...
> hence my email to you again ... sorry to be so slow ... but altho
> i think that i can follow most of the calcs that you have set out
> ... i still don't quite understand a few things ....
>
> ie why 3.5 tbs of pot nitrate in 500 ml ? .... why 2 tsp of pot
> phosphate in 500 ml ?.... etc ...
>
> have these concentrations been chosen for a specific reason?
> ....and why 500 ml ? ...
>
> that seems to be a very large amount of stock solution to have on
> hand when you are dosing 1 - 2 ml per day ... ie it's about 500 -
> 250 days worth of stock ..
>
> will it stay fresh that long in a solution? ... why not make it up
> in smaller batches ... ie .... about 1 months supply?
>
> how do you know / estimate how much your plants will consume in a
> day .... i seem to have missed something or some step here
> somewhere ? .....
>
> can you advise me how i should make up my stock solution for a
> 120l tank ....
>
> 120/168 = 71.4% ... do i just alter all the concentrations by this
> amount? ... i am really keen to start dosing these ferts .... i
> hope that this email is not too much of an imposition ... but i am
> feeling a bit lost and would really appreciater your advice on
> this matter
>
> regards
> rod weiland
>
> ps do you know of any nsw based fish / planted tank / general
> aquaria / buy and sell etc forums ... i have done searches but
> always seem to come up with melb and qld!
>
> regards
> me
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:49:52 -0500
From: "Ben B." <benrx at verizon_net>
Subject: [APD] DFW Plantfest in Houston with Luis Navarro
To: <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
The Dallas-Fort Worth Aquatic Plant Club will be having an all weekend field
trip to Houston, TX the weekend of April 30 - May 2. We would like to invite
anyone that is interested to come along and enjoy the activities we have
lined up.
In the style of the Tom Barr Plantfest last year, this will be very
informal. Everyone that comes will be responsible for making all their own
arrangements including transportation to the various venues throughout the
weekend.
Activities planned (but subject to change) are a visit to Mike and Jeff
Senske's ADG Gallery, an aquascping class by Luis Navarro, visits to see
some of Luis' aquariums, a party at Valerie's and a chance to see her
aquarium, visits to the local pet shops, a possible trip to Japanese
Gardens, and light native plant and fish collecting let by a local
biologist. The guided collecting will be in the same aquatic preserve that
Claus Christensen was taken to before the 2002 AGA Convention that everyone
wishes they could have gone on :-) Luis tells me we will be going to better
places though!
WHEN:
April 30- May 2
WHERE
Houston, Texas
HOTEL
Lexington Hotel Suites
16410 North Freeway 45
Houston, Texas 77090
281-821-1000
$59.99
Ask for the "Plant Fest" rate
I am told we have rooms around the pool :-)
CLOSEST AIRPORT
Houston-Bush International
5 minutes (per Luis)
FEE
none
CONTACT
Ben Belton
trip at aquatic-plants_org
Sorry this does not give people that might be interested much time to plan,
but we have been plagued by illnesses that have kept us from getting things
organized.
More information will be posted at a later date.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:30:37 -0800
From: "Rachel Sandage" <rachelsor at hotmail_com>
Subject: [APD] Re: Water, water everywhere
To: <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
Thanks to all who have replied both on and off list. I've had the doors wide
open on the bottom and a fan blowing warm air in since Wednesday night. One
interesting note is that this should be acting kind of like a substrate
heater, warming the bottom of the tank. I haven't seen any difference in
plant growth.
One thing about the stand is that it has a piece of plywood which covers the
entire bottom, so I cannot see or feel if the carpet/pad/flooring under the
stand is wet. The plywood, and the stand itself, do not look as if they have
warped much, although I have to admit I hadn't looked that closely at them
before this happened.
Tomorrow I will be doing another water change. We are thinking about moving
the tank and stand while it is mostly empty to get a look at the damage; is
that worth doing, or is the stress to the tank not worth the risk? (I don't
usually change the water quite this often, but I am leaving town on Saturday
night & won't be back for over a week, and I am *thisclose* to wiping out
the last bits of BBA).
Someone asked what kind of Fluval was involved; it was the reactor, not the
filter, that I put together incorrectly, and the filter is an Eheim.
Rachel
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:35:05 EST
From: BoiseBobD at aol_com
Subject: [APD] Plants in pots
To: aquatic-plants at actwin_com
HI gang-
Been gone a long time. Too busy to fool with a lot of this stuff.
I have a couple of tanks that were at one time planted and have the
lighting necessary, but have been scraped clean and set up bare-bottom for
angel fry
raising. Since I'm really busy, and sometimes the tanks hold other fish
long-term, it would be great if I could put some plants in pots and move
them
around as needed to help maintain water quality between changes. So what to
use
for a substrate?
While plants are commercially raised in pots using rock wool, that is
primarily for plants in an emerse state. What about immersed? Would I be
best
with gravel/clay substrate, flourite, htbass, or an amano style pumice
gravel/peat/clay deal? Remember, the CO2 will be unsupplemented, and the
plants need
to metabolize(grow) in order to be helpful.
Also, any preferences about pots? Whatever I use will have to be raised
off the bottom a little so when there are fry in the tank they don't get
stuck. The easiest approach for that is marbles and silicone adhesive. I
am
thinking either standard terra cotta pots or possibly strips of plastic
rain
gutter capped off.
Tanks,
Bob Dixon
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:12:32 EST
From: BoiseBobD at aol_com
Subject: [APD] Re: Peat in substrate
To: aquatic-plants at actwin_com
Peat will brown the water pretty heavily for a while. This might turn off
your workmates. A small box filter full of carbon, changed on a r egular
basis
would be a great idea, or a carbon chamber in whatever filter you use.
Bob Dixon
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:27:04 -0800 (PST)
From: "S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>
Subject: Re: [APD] Re: Peat in substrate
To: aquatic plants digest <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
I've put a half an inch roughly on the glass before putting
in 2 or more inches of Onyx Sand or Eco-complete or
Flourite and never had a problem with the water turning
brown. It won't leach fast enough to visibly stain the
water unless you bring it up into the water column. Anyway,
that's my experience.
Scott H.
--- BoiseBobD at aol_com wrote:
> Peat will brown the water pretty heavily for a while.
> This might turn off
> your workmates. A small box filter full of carbon,
> changed on a r egular basis
> would be a great idea, or a carbon chamber in whatever
> filter you use.
>
> Bob Dixon
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:43:28 -0500
From: "Bennett, Bill" <wbennett at jtcc_edu>
Subject: [APD] Size Pump For Sponge Filters
To: <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
I'm setting up about 10-12 ten gallon tanks for breeding and raising
purposes. Some may be planted tanks, others not. My question is what size
air pump would I need to be able to handle ten small sponge filters in these
tanks? Thanks for your suggestions.
Bill
- Corruption of the best, is the worst! -
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