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Salt and plants?
Randal Ormond wrote in message ...
How much salt can the typical aquarium plant tolerate? I heard Java Ferns can handle the salt better than most. I want to keep Mollies and plants too. Thanks -- Mollies do fine without any added salt. They breed like.....well........Mollies. Regards, Tom Barr |
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Salt and plants?
How much salt can the typical aquarium plant tolerate? I heard Java
Ferns can handle the salt better than most. I want to keep Mollies and plants too. Mollies do fine without any added salt. They breed like.....well........Mollies. Well, uh, except the ones that do better with salt. There were recent articles in FAMA and TFH about this. It was the December 2002 TFH, p 96. The bottom line is sailfin mollies have gill structures similar to marine fish - they have osmoregulatory mechanisms - these do indeed need salt to stay healthy although calcium (ie, VERY hard water or rift salts) will also work. Absent sodium or calcium ios, then become thin, humpbacked and will die. The author got wild fish from our own BG Granier and prompty lost them one by one as they wasted away before he figured this out. The articles references work by a Dr. Joel Trexler, an ecologist at Florida International University in Miami who has done quite a bit of work on this species. It's quite a good article and no dount I'm not doing it justice ehre. To answer the original question: yeah, java moss, java ferm, and some crypts do fine in nearly half strentgh seawater: cilata, pontiderifolia, and I think all the long grassy ones. -- Richard Sexton | Mercedes Parts: http://parts.mbz.org http://www.mbz.org Mailing lists: http://lists.mbz.org W108, W126 Mercedes Classifieds: http://ads.mbz.org ** new -- Watch list: http://watches.list.mbz.org |
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Salt and plants?
I've grown very nice Sagittaria subuata in brackish water up to, as I
recollect, about 1.015 spg. Arizona Aquatic Gardens sells the following in their brackish package, recommended for tanks up to 1.012 spg: Anacharis, Anubias Nanas, Anubias Coffeefolia, Aquatic Banana plants, Dwarf Sagittaria Subulata, Narrow Leaf Chain Swords, Bacopa, Cabomba Green, Water Sprite, Temple plant, Crypt Ciliata, Java Fern, Java Moss, Tall Sagittaria Subulata, Jungle Vals... http://www.azgardens.com/index2.html kush "You can't have everything - where would you put it?" Randal Ormond wrote in message ... How much salt can the typical aquarium plant tolerate? I heard Java Ferns can handle the salt better than most. I want to keep Mollies and plants too. Thanks |
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