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Re: Of topic: inverts in planted tanks
Dan,
I would check your water.It might be to soft to keep inverts alive.
I kept Amano shrimps in a flourite setup for years and they are doing just
fine.They shed their shells and need calcium and other minerals to produce
the new shell.The plant list is probably a good place to find some better
answers to your question.i do have problems keeping Ghost shrimp alive in my
tanks though,they taste to good:).
HTH
Max
>From: Dan Gottsegen <dgotts@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: apisto@listbox.com
>To: <apisto@listbox.com>
>Subject: Of topic: inverts in planted tanks
>Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 11:20:38 +0000
>
>I've got an off topic question. Hope this is okay. I've got four tanks of
>varying sizes with apistos and other fish in them. All are heavily planted.
>In two of them, however, I can not seem to keep algae eating shrimp from
>dieing quickly. In the other two the shrimp (and snails) do fine, and keep
>algae under control. The only difference in the two tanks (one of which
>contains a pair of A.steindachner which I think may have just bred... no
>fry
>yet, but she is showing signs) is that I have fluourite in the substrate.
>Anyone have experience that might shed some light in this? Does it contain
>some compound that would be toxic to inverts?
>
>Sorry this is off topic.
> --
>Daniel Gottsegen <dgotts@earthlink.net>
>
>
>
>
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