Re: [APD] Temperate plants for outdoor tank?

["Wise, Nicholas" <Nicholas_Wise at eon-us.com>]

Could it be that the water in the glass tank is getting too hot?
Obviously the amount of incoming solar radiation contacting the water is
much higher with a glass tank than a whiskey barrel.

> The outdoor-proof CO2 setups sound great, but I don't have 
> the money to buy a CO2 setup.  Especially not a two stage 
> regulator.  I'm in school and I even buy my fish food by 
> trading in plants at the store.  
> Christmas moss is a great form of currency.  ;-)  I use Excel 
> on my small indoor tanks.  Besides, the anacharis and 
> hornwort in the nearby whiskey barrel pond grow beautifully 
> without CO2.
> 
> I also can't grow floating watersprite in this setup and it 
> has access to air.  The H. difformis fell apart too fast for 
> CO2 to have been an issue.  Plants store some carbon.  I 
> suppose I can test the carbon hypothesis by removing the 
> anacharis and trying Excel.  It won't hurt anything and I 
> have more anacharis than I know what to do with growing in the pond.
> 
> I'd still like to know if there are more winter-hardy plants 
> that I can try growing.  What else is temperate that I can 
> get through normal online sources?  We're a bit short on 
> creeks for collecting natives here in Southern California.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Elaine
> 
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