Re: [AGA Member] Re: THanks folks..

["J.B." <jbernardo@harbornet.com>]

I wanted to thank all of you...for your help....
Its kinda an "lets try things" type of stuff.. ya see we have gotten 2 tanks
a 20 and a 10 and I was going to play around w/the ten gallon to see what
makes things grow better/quicker/more color etc...etc...and see if there
were things I wanted planted that I could transfer into the 20 gal. ,so
believe me I love all the input .I appreciate it.
Oh yea June we finally put some fish in the 20 gal. plants there are doing
well.The one dean won as a door prize seems happy in the 20 gal. putting out
more leaflets...(whew!! I am glad).Thanks a bunch again!!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "June Olberding" <jdolb1@attbi.com>
To: <aga-member@thekrib.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 10:04 AM
Subject: [AGA Member] Re: newbie here with some questions...


> > And I certainly don't have to spend any time mixing or
> > dosing or chasing down chemicals..  well, so far anyway.
>
> As you know water change resets the nutrients and helps avoid imbalance.
> Depending on your water source, it may also be adding nutrients. Some
water
> sources have good KH, GH,  nitrate and phosphate balance to take care of
> plant needs, depending of course on how much light you have. In such case
> you would be replenishing your tank with water changes.
> Might be worth finding out what is in your water. It may have most of what
> you need.
> My water comes out of the tap like R/O water so even with Flourite, I end
up
> adding  stuff or tank crashes and neither plants or fish do real well. :-(
>
> > I figured if the substrate, lights, and CO2 were right to begin with,
> > everything else takes care of itself. I only have problems if I neglect
the
> > water changes for too long.  I tend to overfeed the fish and if I get
lazy
> > the nitrates creep up. When the nitrates get too high I start seeing
algae
> > developing on the plants. Usually a 50% water change gets things back to
> > normal. If I regularly do a 20% change once a week I never see any
problems.
> > But the tank is only 6 months old and I'm still swapping plants in and
out
> > trying to get the 'look' we want..
> Over the long haul, you may  need to add at least some trace elements.
> Plants store nutrients and will grow for a time before deficiencies show
up.
> I notice this when I go on vacation. Plants will "do ok" for 4-5 weeks and
> will quickly bounce back when given TLC again but go 8 weeks and it takes
> them couple months to recover.
> Regards
> June
>
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