Re: [APD] long term solution to minor element problems

["Liz Wilhite" <satirica at gmail_com>]

On 7/27/06, S. Hieber <shieber at yahoo_com> wrote:
>
> I urge you to read Diana Walsatd's excellent book, _Ecology of the Planted
> Aquarium_. It discusses the amount of nutrients in dirt and how long they
> will last in an aqaurium.



I dunno.  Here I am paying all that money -- what, $13 in 2 years? -- to
that danged ole Greg Watson to get trace and other stuff.  Well, its not
organic and it's described by all these formulae that scare me
fertilizerless, so I'm thinking that in my copious free time I could do an
internet search for sea weed and do a bit of composting.

Heck, maybe I'll send some to Diana.  She did me a good turn once.  I'd bet
Diana has never used composted sea weed as a substrate.  My only question is
whether sea weed is sea weed or whether I need to worry about what ocean it
comes from, especially in my new biotope tank.

sh
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Phaylanx At Chess <Phaylanx at webtv_net>
> To: aquatic-plants at actwin_com
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:28:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [APD] long term solution to minor element problems
>
>
> if you were to compost sea weed nearly all minor elements will be
> available-----the resulting medium would be better than mud-----which
> has had most of its nutrients leeched out as the rains and applied water
> washed them toward the sea------that is why the sea is so filled with
> salt-------and the dead sea has even a greater concentration of
> salt------sea plants are better than sea salt as a provider of minor
> elements-----reason---the algae rejects most of the salt during
> metabolism an concentrates the minor elements in its tissues
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