Cliff Lundberg wrote:
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Wright Huntley wrote:
| | IMHO, bare tanks are a *really* bad idea for almost any fish. Plants absorb
ammonia and deliver copious amounts of oxygen. At times I may have as many
as 150 tanks going, and the ones where I lose fish unexpectedly are
invariable among the very few with little or no plants.
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Could it be the gravel that makes the difference? Gravel has lots of
surface bacteria and the detritus (!) sinks down out of circulation.
My experience is that bare-bottomed tanks require daily vacuuming.
| | If you don't want to deal with a good substrate, at least use Java moss,
Java fern and Anubias. They can be tied to driftwood and easily lifted out
for cleaning or moving to another tank.
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Water sprite is surely the king of non-substrate-dependent plants.
Queen, whatever.
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True enough, and it only requires a moderate amount of light. Forgot to list
it.
Wright
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