On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:44:48 -0000, "Andrew"
wrote:
newbie thinking of puttin live plants into my small 10g tank any help about
taking the leap wud be much appreciated

Try to find another aquarist close to you where you can buy cheap
plants and also get some advise. This way you will get started a lot
faster than when using you LFS.
An aquarist who has a lot of plants, alway have some to spare unless
he/she has just been cutting back the plants. Also the advice from
this person is very valuable as you can see for yourself that he/she
is doing the right things.

Also look into CO2, a DIY system should be OK, as a bait. Later you
may you get realy hooked.:-)

When having a planted tank, the mud that forms is ok. You may let it
stay or you may take it away.

The who realy good things about plants is that they will make your
tank a lot prettyer. The plants will also help stabilizing the tank
and remove nitrate, thus giving the tank higher bio capacity, thus
giving you the oportunity to add more fish or do less frequent
waterchanges.

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