Re: Soil Substrate

["Tomoko Schum" <tomokoschum@knology.net>]

Jody,

Are you talking about Profile line soil substrate?  If so,
you can find out a lot about them by searching the archive
on Aquatic Plant Digest.  Search the archive on Profile and
Turface at  http://fins.actwin.com/aquatic-plants/index.php

If I recall correctly, Profile's aquatic gardening soil
raises the pH and carbonate hardness of the water a bit.  It
also adds phosphate to the water which can increase the
chance of an algae outbreak (someone in Tennessee Aquarium
shared some data on this with me at their studio/plant
holding area.)

Tomoko


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