Re: profile as substrate

["Al Smith" <alsmith1@mindspring.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "J Miller" <ruddigar_99@yahoo.com>
To: "Apisto List" <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: profile as substrate


> Al,
>
>   One of my best planted tanks is a thirty five gallon tank that has
> been set up for about five years.  The substrate is nothing but silica
> gravel, about 3mm.  The plants grow well with good light (about 80W
> flourescent), and CO2, with a weekly addition of liquid fertilzer and
> the odd Jobes plant spike.
>
> HTH
>
> J
> >
> > The aquatic planting soil is suppose to be the same stuff as the soil
> > conditioner..the soil conditioner on the Shcultz page says it is
> > inert
> > also..also I just used a condutivity meter not a reagent kit...the
> > stuff
> > looks nice in the tank....but changing the water chemistry is not
> > good.....just looking for something simple to grow some of the easy
> > plants....looking for ideas from others who grow plants in soft water
> > and do
> > not go the super substrate method..if there is such a way...
> >
> > AL

 Hello Again:
       I just checked my water with 2 reagent kits 1, hagen  2, aquarium
pharm.

hagen   gh=3 gd/h
            kh = 2.8 degrees hardness

A. P.   gh= 5 degrees
           kh= 4 degrees
            this kit has no refrence color as to where you stop..it just
says when green...well is it lime green olive green or the first shade that
resembles green...

now my conductivity meter reads 350 ppm....or microsiems....
do the reagent kits fall in line as in the reading from the meter...?
reason being as I want to make a 75 gallon amazon biotope setup...plants,
apistos,tetras,barbatus cories,zebra plecos and other misc. amazon fish...My
problem is if the profile will alter my water....the readings above are from
a tank with profile in it...plants growing like a jungle...Now is the TDs
and conductivity meter reading my hardness or just any additives in the
water...
I do not want to use a sharp substrate like laterite as it raises hell on
the barbatus barbs as they burrow in the substrate ..All in a nutshell my
meters read hard water my kits read softer water...WHY...

AL





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