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Sagittaria latifolia and Do fish respond to GH or KH?
Subject: Sagittaria latifolia
> While at a garden centre yesterday, I picked up a large and vigo
> "Sagittaria lantifolia" [sic] being sold as a pond marginal.
<snip description of aquarium set-up>
> Does anyone know anything about this species?
This is definitely a better pond plant than aquarium plant. It is
found in inland and coastal freshwater marshes from Canada to the
Southern parts of the U.S. and can grow more than 5 feet tall.
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Subject: Do fish respond to GH or KH?
Alok wrote:
> The thing is that it comes down to is the buffering system. The
> you cannot use anything other than CO2 is because you are workin
> CO3-2. If you wanted, for some unknown reason, to buffer using
> NO3-2, or something else, you could do all sorts of other stuff.
In a chemical sense you could, but it would not, from what I have
seen be of any advantage to the plants in the system, and probably
not the fish either.
Karen Randall
Aquatic Gardeners Assoc.
Boston, MA