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Old 07-03-2010, 09:40 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Default Re: Are freshwater plants easy to get up and going?

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Originally Posted by NursePlaty View Post
Aquarium salt hurt plants and inverts, and I only use it to treat rather than for therapeutic uses. If the fish are fine without it.. then I dont use it. I dont get fancy with my tank. If I had salt in my tank and ich appeared, I would either have to add more salt or decrease salt to interrupt the osmosis pressure to pop the ich cysts.

Stock lights are not usually the right color spectrum anyway. You will need a fixture that can hold 5000K - 10,000K color spectrum bulbs and more watts. Ive noticed when I first grew water sprite, they just grew and died and grew and died because not enough light were hitting them, and new plants just spawned from the dead leaves, it was a never ending cycle. They never reached more than 3 inches.

Try Java fern or Anubias Nana. These plants are immune to goldfish.
Can I buy those bulbs for the lid I already have, do you know? And if I DO get a different light, what plants would you guys suggest then?
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