"Roop" wrote in message
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lol, thanks for the little reminder there

last year i used rotala indica as an oxygenator. this plant feeds
mostly from nutrients in the water as ossposed to the roots. you'll
find a lot of aquatic stem plants are like this. for this reason, the
substrate isn't too important. val's are both, cabomba is almost purly
from the water and i'm not certain about your other plant.

florite should be fine. i've heard that other companies make very
similar clay based substrates specifically for ponds. they don't need
to be rinsed and cost a lot less. shultz's aquatic soil was one. there
are a couple others. i have yet to find this at my local home depot
though.
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Cheapest way is to mix IRONITE in with the soil you plant your plants in,
plus a Rose spike broken in thirds. :-)
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