Re: [RML] Water quality and pH

Gary Lange (gwlange at stlnet.com)
Sat, 21 Aug 1999 21:22:06 -0500

Rosario LaCorte, the tetra and killifish expert here in the states has used
this technique for years. He claims that it works very well for his tanks.
He has a philodendrum that must be 50 feet long that dips it's roots from
tank to tank in the rows near the basement windows. The nice thing about
them is that they don't need a lot of light to do well. You still need to
do your water changes though if you are working with rainbows. I think the
minimum should be 25% per week, 50% better.

Gary Lange

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Sleet <rsleet at charitynet.org>
To: 'rainbowfish at pcug.org.au' <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:15 AM
Subject: RE: [RML] Water quality and pH

>Gosh two posting in one day, but something I know something about.
>
>I've used this method, but not with floating plants. I've used terrestrial
>plants that produce aerial roots, such as Swiss Cheese Plant (Monstera) or
>Phylodendron. Train the Aerial roots into a chaimber filled with water
from the
>tank, nitrates and phosphates plummet. Hardness also tends to fall, as
does pH
>but this is probably as a result of KH going down and lowering buffering
effect,
>rather than as a direct result of the plant.
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