Re: [APD] Soil in Tanks

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

You have to set the mood. Play a little music, some candles, and maybe a
nice bottle of wine.  Nature will go from there.

The hard part is caring for your little nano's once they are born.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aquatic-plants-bounces at actwin_com 
> [mailto:aquatic-plants-bounces at actwin_com] On Behalf Of S. Hieber
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:27 PM
> To: aquatic plants digest
> Subject: Re: [APD] Soil in Tanks
> 
> Aquarium husbandry is not what it's cracked up to be. I've 
> tried and tried and can't get my aquaria to reproduce. I have 
> to go out and buy more aquaria when I want them :-(
> 
> sh
> 
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> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: bill <billpers at comcast_net>
> To: aquatic-plants at actwin_com
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:40:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [APD] Soil in Tanks
> 
> 
> William T. Innes, the original guru of aquarium keeping, 
> wrote in the 1947 edition of the classic "Exotic Aquarium 
> Fish", wrote that soil in planted aquariums "does not work 
> out well."  He felt that the plants in an aquarium would 
> remove the waste material that the fish produced, in a "balanced"
> aquarium.  We know differently today.
> 
> He also said that fertilizing roots was more dangerous than 
> using a soil underlayer.  He noted that he had seen ". . . 
> many well planted aquariums degenerate without the presence 
> of fish life, only to revive beautifully with the 
> reintroduction of fishes."
> 
> Innes was state-of-the-art for his day.  It is amazing that 
> much of what he advocated is still good aquarium husbandry 60 
> or 70 years later.
> 
> Later editions of that book are readily available at a low 
> price at Amazon.com and other places.  If they are like the 
> 1947 edition, they are classics.
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