Re: NANFA-- That whole sandbed thing.

Al G Eaton (sege7_2000_at_yahoo.com)
Wed, 5 Feb 2003 04:45:07 -0800 (PST)

Repeat after me "there is no substitute for water
changes" lol. I don't think there is a serious
aquarist alive who hasn't gotten behind on water
changes. Could your tank use some more light?

I believe the swords etc that I planted in sand in
1987ish grew like mad for about two weeks and then the
roots died for some reason. I don't think it was
substrate temps as it was summer, but lack of
sufficient fertilized and enough light intensity are
the likely culprits. We are really lucky to have
access to so much information on the net about fish
and plants.

If you want an accurate Nitrate test kit, get a
Lamotte! It will remind you of being in chemsitry
class.

Klaus
--- Todd Crail <farmertodd_at_buckeye-express.com> wrote:
> Well. Doh!
>
> Picked up a new and different brand of nitrate test
> kit today. I was using
> the Aquarium Pharmaceuticals... Now I have a Tetra
> test kit (would be
> interesting to see how the Hagen one compares). The
> AP one had expired in
> December so I thought I'd try something new... Now
> the Tetra one is showing
> about 25 mg/L (is ppm and mg/L and equivalent?).
> <sigh> So ignore every
> last thing I said in this thread ;)
>
> Actually, if that's as bad as it was, then I'm not
> complaining. It did go
> for 2 months without any intervention besides
> stuffing the fish with food
> and dumping in fertilizers twice a week. And now
> that I've added the
> fertilizers for the week on Sunday, the algae on the
> glass is already
> crashing. So there is some inherent beauty in this
> method so far... I just
> didn't want to let myself walk off like I was some
> sort of Aquarist's Oracle
> or sumpin. :)
>
> Guess it's time to clean some of the detritus out of
> the filters and change
> a little water tomorrow. heeheehee.
>
> Todd
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