Fwd: Re: plant filtration

["Ed Pon" <edpon@hotmail.com>]

Gary wrote:
> I don't think a dangling
>terrestrial plant would outcompete submerse plants, would it? 

Someone once told me that aquatic plants use up the ammonia more easily 
whereas terrestrial plants consume the nitrates (or vice versa, I don't 
fully recall).  Having both terrestrial and aquatic plants would seem to 
be a good way to go, if this were the case.

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