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Plants for Lake Tanganyika tank
> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 09:49:28 GMT
> From: crom at cris_com (Crom)
> Subject: Splitting Anubias rhizome, algaed Anubias, ...
>
> Last question: I know that Vallisneria will tolerate rift-lake
> conditions, but all of my rooted plants are kept in tanks with soil
> substrates, and my rift-lake tanks are sand, ranging from #1-#4. Will
> they do well in this substrate?
I've got two kinds of Vallisneria in a sand-substrate Lake Tanganyika tank
and they do just fine. I've also got Malaysian trumpet snails in there,
if it makes any difference. I have Java fern and Java moss on the rocks.
For floating plants I have duckweed, Wolffia (a sort of micro-duckweed)
and Limnobium laevigata (frogbit). All of these grow very well, and I
harvest the frogbit every few weeks and haul it in for store credit. All
these plants are growing under less that 1.5 watts per gallon, mix of
gro-lux wide spectrum and cool white.