Re: Bamboo - breakfast of champion pandas!

[Charter <charter@charter-terminal.com>]

The preliminary results are in, and so far it's working rather well!  Long 
story short, I bought untreated bamboo garden stakes from Ravenna Gardens, 
couldn't find a suitable sealant, weighted the bottom with steel screws and 
nuts, and drilled very small holes in the segments to let the air out.

I took a picture and uploaded it to my server: 
http://fisherking.org/bamboo.jpg (30k).  I'll report on the long-term 
results as they appear.

 - Erika

At 10:33 AM 2/25/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Charter wrote:
>
> > I had actually been thinking of cutting the woody bamboo stakes to size,
> > then bracing them upright in the gravel, for a kind of thicket effect.  In
> > my head, bamboo stakes and some floating water sprite makes for an Asian
> > ditch biotope, perfect for pearl gourami.
>
> Maybe drill a few holes in the back where one can't see them -- or even
> cut a groove with a table saw, so that water can move around & more easily
> submerge?  Can one fill the bottom with rocks or gravel to help it sink?
>
>   - Erik
>
> --
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com