Re: Hornwort

• To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
• Subject: Re: Hornwort
• From: ac554 at freenet_carleton.ca (David Whittaker)
• Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 03:00:02 -0400

Dan Simon asked...
>Anyone familiar with the Hornwort plant ? I hear it's a free floating stem
>plant that tastes bad to fish.  Any thoughts to its use in the planted
>aquarium?

Goldfish will nibble at it. Otherwise it grows pretty well in
moderate light and even soft water, although it is said to prefer
a little calcium. Like most floating plants it will reduce the
intensity of the light reaching the plants below.

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Dave Whittaker                       ac554 at FreeNet_Carleton.CA
Gloucester, Ontario                  dwhitt at magmacom_com
Canada

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