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From: Aquatic Plants Digest <Aquatic-Plants-Owner at actwin_com>
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Date: Monday, April 06, 1998 2:52 AM
Subject: Aquatic Plants Digest V3 #185
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>Aquatic Plants Digest Monday, April 6 1998 Volume 03 : Number 185
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>In this issue:
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> [none]
> steve's substrate
> PMDD QUESTION
> My Final Thoughts.
> My setup & water parameters(long)
> Water chestnut (Trapa natans)
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>----------------------------------------------------------------------Hi
all...Ive been reading the posts for quite some time and would like to ask a
few questions,if anyone has time ...What is this PMDD stuff some are talking
about? I have been TRYING to grow some plants in a 55 gal tank with mixed
results.I would like to try some fertilizer but dont want to kill or sicken
the fish..Could some one give me some pointers? TIA Charles
>
>Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 15:04:37 -0500
>From: Cynthia S Powers <cyn at metronet_com>
>Subject: [none]
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>FORWARDED MESSAGE:
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>>Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 22:47:03 -0800
>>From: Rice <RiceGuy at stones_com>
>>To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
>>Subject: Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V3 #121
>>
>>I wrote sent this a few days back, but didn't see it. If
>>this is a double post, I apologize.
>>
>>Finally, today, after much efforts, I started to cut off
>>*GREEN* leaves! All I can say is sincerest thanks to all of
>>you, especially Steve Pushak, who devoted hours of his time
>>to privately correspond with me and who made sure I did it
>>right. All of you who were ever so kind to help out the
>>newbie... I can't say enough of how great a list this is, or
>>of how much collective knowledge is found on here.
>>
>>I see a few little baby plants popping up from nowhere-
>>isn't it so cool? Already, I'm imagining my future 300
>>gal planted tank... awwwiiiieeeee! Hope I win the lottery
>>soon.
>>
>>I've been wondering if freezing PMDD (the stuff that has
>>already been mixed) would help. would it help preserve it?
>>or would that be counter productive?
>>
>>I recently found out that I have too much Mg in my pmdd;
>>about twice as much as recommended in the formula. Is this
>>bad?
>> As of now, my tank (50 gal hexagon) is vacant,
>>except for a
>>few ghost shrimps. thinking of adding a pair of discus. My
>>water, however, is very unfavorable for keeping soft, acidic
>>water fishes. pH is around 8.3 and I'm guessing that the
>>hardness is around 22 KH. Now, if I want to lower the pH, I
>>can do one of the following or a combination: 1) increase
>>CO2 (unlikely to be very effective because I dont want CO2
>>poisoning), I figured that i can get the pH to 7.34 if I
>>increase CO2 to 30 ppm. 2) add peat. Probably won't need to
>>do that because my substrate is already partly made of peat.
>>pH would lower over time. Only, this would mean that I can't
>>change the water that often. Thinking of making an automatic
>>water changer... so you can see my conflict. 3) use RO
>>water. seems to be the best choice, but a real hassle
>>though. changing water with a 5 gallon bottle doesn't sound
>>very fun. 4) not changing water at all. Please advice me
>>here, I have no clue as to what will result form this.
>> Hooking the RO up as the automatic water changer is
>>not a
>>option. Can't afford it, need the RO for drinking water,
>>parents wont let, yada, yada, yada... Any expensive options
>>are out of the question; my budget is in my wallet, and my
>>wallet is rather thin and sickly looking. :-| I've been
>>doing pretty good on my spending so far, (substrate <-- most
>>expensive!, CO2, aquarium stand, reactor, lights, gravel,
>>plants, heater, power head, fertilizer, etc..), ran a total
>>of about $100 (got tank for free). pretty good huh? Anyway,
>>if you can think of anyway to get a low pH at a low cost,
>>please let me know.
>>And once again, thanks to all of you- amazing I got this
>>far.
>>-RiceGuy
>>
>>
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>Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 23:03:18 -0700
>From: "Toan T." <RiceGuy at stones_com>
>Subject: steve's substrate
>
>There was someone a short while back that was about to
>try steve's substrate method. Just wanted to tell that
>person that his method worked for me! Plants look great!
>And the thing I like best about it is that it is cheap.
>Oh yeah, Steve, how long does your substrate last? 2, 3
>years? think I can stretch that if I start adding pmdd
>when the plants start to show signs of deficiency?
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>Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 11:20:42 +0800
>From: Michael Cordero <taburnok at skyinet_net>
>Subject: PMDD QUESTION
>
>hi me again .. i need to know if there are sources for PMDD INGREDIENTS
>who can do mail order and ship here to MANILA .. if someone
>out there has any info on this please help out .. im really interested
>in rolling my own ... TIA
>
>MIKE
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>Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 19:48:06 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Thomas Moeller <n9345228 at cc_wwu.edu>
>Subject: My Final Thoughts.
>
>First, my apologies for continuing this thread. I realize the topic has
>been closed by our adminstrator, but I would like to put a peaceful end to
>all of this, so we can better continue with what we all love to do and
>that's keeping aquatic plants. First, although easily mistaken, my
>orignal post was meant to be a sharing of a great deal, of which I thought
>a lot of people could relate to. You see, I am a senior at Western
>Washington University and not suprisingly have no money and usually pay
>more money into my fish hobby every month than buying food for myself. As
>you know, keeping fish and aquatic plants in a serious way is not for
>those without money....nevertheless, my *deal* at Petsmart in finding 35
>Anubia congensis for $1.49 each was just that, a great deal! Especially
>for a poor college kid who now could play with 35 awesome plants. Just
>to clarify, I did not steal. You can twist it anyway you like. There
>were no other price tags that said Anubia...nor have I ever seen them in
>that store before! Yes, I guessed that they had goofed in a big way, but
>I don't feel I have an overwhelming duty to society to point out
>everyone's mistakes, especially in the retail world. Finally, I find it
>quite disgusting if not surprising that you would all berate me (in some
>cases multiple times by the same people) and send me such things as quotes
>from the bible, calling me a communist, a thief, a criminal, etc
>etc....come on people. Surely we can all get excited about this and yes,
>it's easy to mistaken things on email...they come across in different ways
>to different people...but let's calm down. Once again, my goal was to
>voice my excitement about these great plants and the fact I got a great
>deal. I am sure that *IF* this was a mistake by Petsmart, it won't hurt
>anybody's retirement fund, send me to hell, or alienate me from society.
>Now, we are all fairly intelligent people with a great common interest.
>Let's put this behind us and talk about aquatic plants. My apologies for
>taking up bandwith with this and previous off-topic post/responses. -Tom
>
>------------------------------
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>Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 00:39:34 -0400
>From: "Thomas E. Cooper" <avian at ee_net>
>Subject: My setup & water parameters(long)
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>Here we go again.
> I respectfully ask for someone to please read this and answer my
>Quetions please. I have sent a few posts to the list so far and most
>went unanswered. I will be sending for a report from the water co., and
>will be comparing my test results with theres'.
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>Aint nature grand
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>Thom
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>Hi all
> I have been lurking awhile. I have got my setup together execpt for
>the plants. My water parameters are abit confusing to me. Any help
>would be appreciated.
> I own a ninety gallon tank, my filteration is a magnum 350(350gph)
>canister filter, I have Ehiem ceramic tiles in the charcol slieve. I
>also have a Emporer powerfilter (400GPH) by Penguin on the back of the
>tank. It has the pads that came with it , they have some charcol in
>them. In the cartriges I have Fluval peat granuals. Right now I also
>have an undergravel filter powered by 2 Penguin 550 powerheads (145GPH
>each) reverse flow. The The gravel for this filter is 1-3mm, and about
>5" thick I plan on adding Duplarit k Pellets to the subsrtrate. The
>lighting will be provided 2 40W Flora-Glow by Hagen, and 2 40W Aqual-Glo
>also by Hagen. There will be one of each in both striplights, plus two
>20W 24" cool white bulbs in the original striplight. The two new
>striplights have alunimium reflectors. I have four halfgrown Leatacara
>curviceps, five young Bleedinghearts, one Corydoras jullii, 3 C.swartzi,
>and one Otocinclus sp.(I started with 3).
>I plan on adding three more Bleedinghearts, and eight Cardinal tetras.
>I do have some algea, but not much. Mainly just the bright green stuff
>that sticks to the glass. I plan on getting a small Pleco till the
>plants come then replacing him with acouple SAEs. I do 30% waterchanges
>every week. I condition the new water with Tetra's Aquasafe. The temp is
>around eightyfive.( The heater only runs in the dead of winter, I have
>been unsuccessful in lowering the temp.).
> I did tests on both my tap water and the aquarium water with Red Sea
>Pharm Ltd's Deluxe Fresh lab.. I did a waterchange about a week before
>the test.
>
> Tap Tank
>Ph 7.2 6.2
>KH 1 Deg. O Deg.
>GH 7 Deg. 7 Deg.
>Fe 0.1 ppm O.1 ppm
>Nitrite 0 ppm 0.05 ppm
>Toxic NH O 0.00075ppm
>Co2 10 Triation The color wouldn't change.?????
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>The tank has been up and running for five years without the Penguin
>power filter and therefor no Peat. It used to have a large Population
>of Central american cichlids. They did very well.
> My Question is are. Before adding plants should I turn off the
>undergravel filter and use the powerheads for watermovement. Is the
>substrate two thick, If not how do I keep the substrate from turning
>anoxic if the ugf filter isn't running. Obviously the PH and the KH are
>too low Does this have to do with the fact that I couldn't get a reading
>on the Co2 in the tank water. I thought that central Ohio's water was
>high Ph and KH because all the limestone, which is calciumcarbonate.
>The GH seems to be just alittle high. Should I remove the peat from the
>powerfilter. I plan on makeing some PMDD from recipes in the archives.
>Any thoughts on geting my water parameters in line for plants. I know
>this was very long. Thanks for youre patience.
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>Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 00:28:29 -0500
>From: Cynthia S Powers <cyn at metronet_com>
>Subject: Water chestnut (Trapa natans)
>
>>Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 21:29:20 -0400
>>From: "Sibastien Amodeo" <m231674 at er_uqam.ca>
>>To: aquatic-plants at actwin_com, m231674 at er_uqam.ca
>>Subject: Water chestnut (Trapa natans)
>>
>>Hello all!
>>
>>I'm a master's student (environmental sciences) at the University of
>>Quibec in Montrial, and our team is researching the possibility of using
>>the water chestnut (Trapa natans) as a possible way of removing surplus
>>phosphorus in an eutrophic lake. We have chosen this plant because it is
>>also a non-native aquatic plant causing problems with lake users.
>>
>>We need the most information possible on this plant, especially
>>concerning its reproduction, life cycle, and anything related to
>>nutrient (particularly phosphorus) uptakes.
>>
>>Our idea was to restrain the plants in a certain area, using a dyke or
>>specially designed fences, and to collect the plants once they have
>>grown. The collected plants could then serve as compost or other uses.
>>
>>If anyone has any ideas, suggestions, remarks, or experience that could
>>be helpful, please contact me directly (I'm not on the mailing list).
>>
>>Thank you very much!
>>
>>Sibastien Amodeo
>>m231674 at er_uqam.ca
>>http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/m231674
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>>
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