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From: ix426@sdcc6.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Fishtank Moved
Message-ID: <3525@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU>
Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 15:27:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  3 15:27:04 1987
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References: <1753@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <4370@sol.ARPA> <1755@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <15631@watmath.waterloo.edu> <2438@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: ix426@sdcc6.ucsd.edu.UUCP (tom stockfish)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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Keywords: Filtration, Carbon, Charcoal, Coal

In article <2438@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>Polyester fibre
>--------- -----
>This floss is the same stuff that you can buy REAL CHEAP in store for
>stuffing pillows, but it seems to mat real easy, and I don't use it.
>I dont use the petshop brands for the same brand either. What I have found
>to be very usefull is Marineland brand pads - they are 1/2 inch thick
>pads that you cut to fit. They seem to hold up quite well and do a good
>job.

I normally buy things and use them for the something that they were
never intended, but I never do this for anything that goes in my
tank.
Most home furnishings products contain some sort of (highly
toxic to fish) flame retardent.
Many plastic garbage bags contain
anti-mold/mildew compounds (lethal to fish).
I pay the exorbitant
pet store price, and assume they use untreated materials -- except
for products intended for human food handling/preparation (e.g.
food storage bags).
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||  Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry   tps@chem.ucsd.edu