While I don't go to quite the extreme that you do Todd, I have grown
vallisneria in red flint gravel for as long as I have kept fish. I am
just too dang lazy to measure water parameters, but I know that my fish
do very well in this setup.
Expect for my darters. Val just doesn't fit in the envirotype.
And man, do I have troubles with algae in that tank.
I do wish that I had a LFS that would buy my val. I throw out handfuls
of the stuff every few months.
Geoff Kimber
Lexington,KY
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:15, Todd Crail wrote:
> I didn't see it on there... It was an Algal Turf Scrubber (ATS) which they
> kind popularized for awhile. Looks like that star kinda fell outta the sky.
> I hope people figured out caulerpa was ten times better at nutrient uptake
> than this overpriced device. I still can't believe that they get $70 for a
> detrivore kit with stuff that's there anyway if people would just leave fish
> out of their reefs for a few months and then not _have to get_ a frickin'
> mandarin meat hunter or something like that.
>
> Use sand substrate with vallisneria, Sajjad... There's no reason to have to
> maintain a nutrient load that'll make algae grow. And then, you can pull
> your excesses out and get something for it at the LFS (while doing a much
> easier "water changes" by pulling plants instead of lifting water). Imagine
> showing up with a bucket of algae and trying to get something for it ;)
>
> We're rolling on a year now with the sandbeds (6 systems now), and I'll
> _never_ use another substrate again. Now I'm playing with the "tweaks" :)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ichthos_at_comcast.net>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 10:40 AM
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- Filteration system from NANFA 1999
>
>
> > http://www.inlandaquatics.com/prod/products.html
> >
> >
> > > What was the huge filteration system that was on display
> > > in NANFA 1999 (Illinois)? This is the one that BG really
> > > likes and that allowed his Pteronotropsis to recover.
> > > Little tank inside the tank ... wave action ... algae growth.
> > >
> > > I need a name or a URL so I can find more info.
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