Thanks, maybe I should just try them in a tank on their own for a while. I
try to put them in with my other planted tanks and they just die off. I'm
usually very good with plants. I've been trying some water cress and some
unidentified types. I have lot's of other plants but I always seem to kill
off the ones I collect.
I did have some luck with a couple Julie gave me, that I think Peter had
collected. One, I think, is a Didiplis diandra, which is a great plant,
really pretty, unusual and growing like crazy (Julie if you don't have any
left I'll give you some back, you'll love this one.) The other is some
unidentifed grass. Then there are my cattails in the front yard. All my
collected plants that lived were collected by friends.<g>
Rhonda
On Sun, 15 Dec 1996 09:25:00 Bruce Hanson wrote:
>>I have tried many native plants over here and you are on the right track
trying some of the bog plants. Try the ones that like a bit of shade, keep
some of their original substrate still attached to the roots, transport
them with mud attached in those little plastic boxes that take-aways come
in, in a styrofoam box just like fish and give them lots of light ( e.g. 4
tubes over 18" of water) on a timer for 12 hours a day. Since many
swamp/bog plants are used to CO2 from the swamp decomposition they often
need it. It is easy to supply with a simple yeast generator fed into a
small powerhead operated sponge filter's venturi nozzle. Later on you can
feed the plants with clay balls into the substrate.
It's amazing how dofferent the submerse foliage can be on some plants ( if
they survive that is).<<
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