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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V1 #262
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To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
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Subject: Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V1 #262
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From: "Ted Fidder, AT&T - Bell Labs, Denver" <fidder at drmail_dr.att.com>
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 09:12:27 -0700
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In-Reply-To: Aquatic-Plants-Owner at ActWin_com "Aquatic Plants Digest V1 #262" (Feb 17, 3:39am)
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References: <199602170839.DAA14487 at looney_actwin.com>
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} From: gtong at sirius_com (G.Tong)
} Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 20:35:42 -0800
} Subject: H. polysperma 'Tropical Sunset'
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} Would this be the same as an "Empress hygro"? That's what my
storekeeper
} called the Hygro I recently bought. It resembles H. polysperma but has
} prominent white veins and the new leaves are pink, and turn green over
} time. The leaves on each stem go from green below to pink on top and
} overall makes the plant look like light is hitting it from above.
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} Greg. Tong
Greg,
I have put some of what I am now calling H. Polysperma "Tropical
Sunset" in several of my tanks. In my 180 gal tank all the leaves
have pink veins; in my 30gal tank they are white. However, I recently
added a bunch of iron to that tank and the new leaves seem to be pink
again. Based on this observation I would guess that you are simply low
on iron in your tank. My 180gal is running about 0.05pmm to 0.1ppm iron,
unfortunately I didn't measure the 30gal before I dump in more iron.
Ted.
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Ted Fidder
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AT&T Bell Labs
11900 Pecos Street
Denver, Colorado 80234