Re: [APD] Sword Roots

[urville <urville at peoplepc_com>]

well if it's any help i have been told that swords, sags, and... soemthing else are heavy root feeders and that wont do as well with just water column feeding. many a person has told me to put tablets in the substrate at the base of these plants or expect less than stellar growth.

he uses profile, as do i, but he didnt use sand over it. people say profile is free of anything when you buy it, but even my bag said important minerals, and i saw a post on... the krib... i think..... where someone had it analyzed and it contained a whole mess of the same things substartes like flourite and ecocomplete come with. thta may be why his did so well. i use profile also and my radicans grew like crazy, not so much size as amount of leaves. i got a new one almost every other day like clockwork
Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill D <billinet at comcast_net>
Sent: Sep 23, 2005 4:40 PM
To: aquatic-plants at actwin_com
Subject: Re: [APD] Sword Roots

My point in commenting on the large mass of roots that the sword produced
was prompted by my lack of success with water column-only feeding.  I was
thinking that if the sword and other  plants put out masses of roots, they
must be looking for something down there, like nutrients in the substrate.

But, on the other hand, if there were adequate nutrients in the water
column, maybe they wouldn't grow as many roots?

Bill


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