Fwd: Re: Fwd: plant filtration

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

>Ed Pon wrote:
>
>> By the way--Many years back,  I remember reading in an Aquarium 
digest
>> about someone growing a potato plant with the roots hanging into the
>> tank water to keep up water quality.  Potatoes are supposed to be a 
good
>> source of minerals,  I wonder if a potato plant has any water 
softening
>> qualities by taking minerals from the water.
>

Gary wrote:
>You can't win. When you're half Norwegian, half Irish, everything
>eventually comes back around to fish and potatoes.
>Let the experiment begin.
>-Gary Elson

Gary--Fish and potatoes--all this time I thought it was the British that 
we got fish and chips from {:-) .

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