Re: [GSAS-Member] Am I doing the right thing with Vals?

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

That Val came out of a Lake Tanganyika tank to which we mostly just put 
Calcium Carbonate and Magnesium Carbonate.  It also has inert substrate. 
We have a 2-tube shoplight over it, retrofitted with T8 bulbs.  We don't 
fertilize the tank -- that seems to be the main difference in the two 
environments.

  - Erik

On Mon, 19 May 2008, Laurel Larsen wrote:

> I got some Vallisneria at the auction, and so far my mbuna either
> haven't figured out that it makes a tasty snack, or they're not eating
> it fast enough for me to notice.  I'll start with telling you that I'm
> a complete plant noob.
>
> I have an inert substrate(3m Colorquartz) that I have them planted in,
> and I'm dosing the tank with excel every day or every other day if I
> don't remember.  I also have been dosing it with Flourish twice a
> week.  I noticed a couple days ago that some of the leaves appear to
> be turning slightly transparent.  They might have been this way
> beforehand, and I didn't notice it, regardless, should I be doing
> something to combat this?  Should I be adding anything else to the
> water? It's buffered pretty heavily(with a premixed buffer as well as
> a bunch of aragonite substrate in my filter) and has Malawi GH
> boosters as well which I believe is calcium and some other stuff.
>
> The tank's levels(of stuff I have test kits for) are -
> pH - 8.0
> Amm. - 0
> NitrIte - 0
> NitrAte - >5, <20
> KH - 15º
> GH - 15º
> Phosphates I haven't tested in a while, but they're fairly low
>
> Thanks for the input, after having such bad luck with Anubias, I wan
> to make sure I'm doing this correctly, but I'm not willing to switch
> out for an enriched substrate, the colorquartz is too perfect for my
> mbuna.
>
> Here's a shot of the tank on thursday
> http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/Laurelthequeen/Fish%20Tank/?action=view&current=DSCF5423.jpg
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