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

[Laurel Larsen <laurelthequeen@gmail.com>]

haha, I suppose so.  Hopefully they'll adapt to my neurotic paranoid  
style of tank maintenance.  The colorquartz is black though, you'd  
never catch me with a blue substrate. :-p
On May 19, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Shango Los wrote:

> Laurel, Looks like you are being too loving and generous!
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Am I doing the right thing with Vals?
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> 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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