Re: Ottos and fry

[Dave Gomberg <gomberg@wcf.com>]

At 12:13 PM 1/31/99 EST, IDMiamiBob@aol.com wrote:
>I have this ten gallon tank I was setting up for plants.  I dropped a pair of
>cacatuoides in it to build up some nitrates a couple days before the planats
>arrive.  The plants were late in shipping and now i have a female and thrity
>or so fry in a brightly lit, non-planted tank.  Well, almost non-planted.
>Hair algae has sprung up (can't imagine why :-)). 

Put some salvinia on top.   That will cut the light and suck up the
nutrients.  Easy to remove when plants arrive too.   And the fry can feed
off the "roots" of the salvinia.

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Dave Gomberg, San Francisco            mailto:gomberg@wcf.com
http://www.wcf.com/co2iron
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