Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- plants and soil
From: James Smith (jbosmith at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 01 2004 - 23:44:28 CDT
I actually like the tannin look. Reminds me of the swamp behind my
house growing up.. of course so do mosquitos and I still dispise them.
I think it'll just work itself out eventually. :)
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 23:38:00 -0400, Irate Mormon
<archimedes at bayspringstel.net> wrote:
> Quoting "Crail, Todd" <farmertodd at buckeye-express.com>:
>
> > There are tannins in my system. Is the source the wood? Is the source
> > 80lbs of potting soil?
>
> The anwer is, both. I have used soil in a tank without driftwood, and got
> tannins. In fact, potting soil contains bark chips and other bits of wood which
> leach tannins. And of course, the ability of uncured/uncoated driftwood to do
> the same is legendary. Regardless of what kind of light you have, it is obvious
> if you have tannin stained water. I live with it, others buy it in a bottle
> called "blackwater extract". Most of the streams in south Mississippi are what
> I would call blackwater streams. Not muddy, but tannin stained.
>
>
>
> --Irate
> Where am I going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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: Fri Dec 31 2004 - 11:27:36 CST