Fwd: Re: Re: plant filtration

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

Tim wrote:
>I remove half a cup of salvinia and duck weed every week from all my 
>tanks.  The water lettuce has a large root system and grows at a nice 
>pace. It starts little plantlets and can get rather large if you let 
it.
>You should try it for filtering, not near as messy as duck weed.
>
>Tim
If you don't know what to do with all those plants you pulled out. I 
discovered that if I poored hot water over all the excess duckweed, I 
could use the dead duckweek to feed a daphnia culture.

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