Re: [GSAS-Member] Seeking Low Light Plants

["Matt Staroscik" <matt@wrongcrowd.com>]

Micro shrimp?! Sounds neat. (I use water lettuce as a floating nutrient
sink.)

- Matt S.

On 8/15/07, Clifford Miller <clifford@clevergeek.com> wrote:
>
>
> Alternately, you might consider increasing the levels of floating plants
> to filter some of the higher intensity light (if the tank in question is
> big enough to have both high light and low light sections).
>
> I have plently of duckweed, salvia, fairy moss and frogbit if you're
> interested in trying it out.
>
> I'm a big fan of the lillypad look and long hanging root structure of the
> frogbit, but many people consider it too messy.
>
> The smaller plants will form a nice curtain over the surface that lots of
> livebearers and micro shrimp seem to like playing in, and have much
> shorter roots...but once they're added to a tank, they're in to stay...
> No matter how you try to net or filter them out there will always be more.
> I pull them out of my three tanks by the handfuls on a weekly basis.
>
> Best of Luck,
>
> Cliff
>
>
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