On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:35:17 UTC, Dick wrote:

This thread reflects my attitude. Survival of the fittest. My light,
my ph, my temperature, my fish, the plants have to work with those
conditions.

This is good sense. My own approach is different: I'm gonna have lush
plant growth, and I'm gonna have brightly colored rainbowfish swimming
there; and since I stopped resisting getting better lights, a flash of
bright red plants is also in the specs. Lights, chemicals, and CO2 as
necessary; and it works fine for me. But I admit that the Darwinian
approach is more reasonable.


I believe lighting is a controlling factor. I have 5 tanks ranging
from 75 gallons to 10 gallons. After going through various plantings
things are pretty stable.

I wish the plant folks would sort their offerings by lighting
conditions as well as fresh and salt. It is hard to get the widest
selections when each choice needs to be researched. I have found two
sites which offer a batch of "low light" plants, but they both include
plants which want more than 2 wpg. I would rather they limit their
selections to under 2 wpg.

I second that, though at present 2 wpg is (by design) the dim end of my
tank. Suppliers could do a lot better at helping to match plants to tank
conditions.


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Dan Drake

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