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Do all palnts filter water?
Just curious if all aquatic plants serve as natural filters or just
certain ones. If not which are non-filtering plants? |
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Bawb2u wrote:
Just curious if all aquatic plants serve as natural filters or just certain ones. If not which are non-filtering plants? They don't "filter" water per se, they consume some of the by-products of fish metabolism. -- Victor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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Victor Martinez wrote:
Bawb2u wrote: Just curious if all aquatic plants serve as natural filters or just certain ones. If not which are non-filtering plants? They don't "filter" water per se, they consume some of the by-products of fish metabolism. And all healthy, growing plants do this. The faster the plant grows in your tank, the more fish waste it uses. -- __ Elaine T __ __' http://eethomp.com/fish.html '__ |
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"Bawb2u" wrote in message ... Just curious if all aquatic plants serve as natural filters or just certain ones. If not which are non-filtering plants? To an extent, yes. The plants consume the "nutrients" placed in the water by your fish and other critters. Some plants do a better job then others. In a pond, for example, floating plants like Water Hyacinth and Water lettuce can be very affective filters. Their very dense root systems hanging in the water not only aid them in collecting the "nutrients", they can also collect a lot of floating particles. Some planted plants like Water iris also work very well as filter plants, especially when planted in a loose media like rocks or pebbles. -- BV Webporgmaster of iheartmypond.com http://www.iheartmypond.com/plants I'll be leaning on the bus stop post. Come join the IHMP forums, http://ihmp.net/phpbb |
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