Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!lll-winken!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Fresh water plants
Message-ID: <3829@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 5 May 88 04:55:19 GMT
References: <317@unisv.UUCP> <3599@gryphon.CTS.COM> <332@unisv.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <332@unisv.UUCP> vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>I wrote:
>>What plants have you tried and failed at ? 

>Anacharis, hornwort, cane plants, those hairy bulb things, (Truely awful;
>they sprout a few long stalks with a little leaf at the top of the water,
>then die.) several kinds of grass that would allegedly carpet the whole
>bottom of the tank.  I have tried corkscrew vallisneria and the straight
>kind, but that was some time ago; I can give it another try.  I have not
>tried java fern.  I've never heard of it before, but I'll see if I can
>find a place that carries it. 

Hmm, I had real good luck with hornwort in canada, but not here, and the
water (liquid rock) is the same. It seems to like it cool though.

Anacharis definitly likes it cold (64 D Farenheit).

Not sure what a cane plant of a hariy bulb thing is.

Java fern can be hard to find, its a bit slow, but eventually it 
just takes over. Same with val. The secret seems to be enough light
and DONT DISTURB THEM.

>Do you have this success with an undergravel filter?

Both with and without. No difference.


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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                          rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard