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

["Shango Los" <Shango@shangolos.com>]

Laurel, Looks like you are being too loving and generous!


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Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 2:54 PM
To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Am I doing the right thing with Vals?

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/?act
> ion=view&current=DSCF5423.jpg 
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