Using Aquarium water for house plants
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Comments (3)Link below is to some of the precious discussions on this question. You might want to browse through them. Dave Here is a link that might be useful: Using aquarium water discussions...See MoreWatering with aquarium water
Comments (5)I tend to feel that just because aquarium water has some nutrients is not a good indicator it's necessarily good for your plants. Here's why: We know it's not complete and that it doesn't contain nutrients in a ratio that's favorable for plants. That means that using fish emulsion alone as a nutrient source will definitely limit growth (Liebig's Law of the Minimum). To prevent growth from being limited due to nutritional deficiencies, you'll need to supply either a soluble fertilizer or organic soil amendments, with the former being an easier and more reliable way of delivering nutrients. So here the aquarium water user is - wondering what nutrients he's supplied and what nutrients are lacking. With no way of knowing, he reaches for his fertilizer and applies it according to directions. This should deliver a dose of all the nutrients necessary for growth in a favorable ratio (if it doesn't you used the wrong fertilizer). This application makes the nutrients in the soil solution derived from the aquarium water redundant. They actually serve no purpose, and in fact, unnecessarily raise the the level of EC/TDS higher than if they were not present, making it more difficult (though marginally) for the plant to take up water and the nutrients dissolved in water, so you would have been better off w/o it - with sticking to a fertilizer plan you KNOW provides all the necessary nutrients at a favorable concentration and in a favorable ratio to each other. RG - your plant has obvious nutritional deficiencies. My guess, because of the interveinal chlorosis AND the cupping of the leaf margins is that it's short at least Mg, and very probably N and others. If you're willing to answer a few questions, I'm pretty sure we can narrow things down and get your tree back on track. Al...See MoreWould it be good for me to water my citrus with fish tank water
Comments (37)Dogma is holding firm to the belief that something could neither be a conceptually or practically superior practice because you believe something else seems to be satisfactory - 'works for me'. Old beliefs are like a pair of old shoes - we often value their comfort so much we tend to ignore the fact they're full of holes. Almost everyone prefers the relative comfort of belief to the exercise of reason because believing is easier than reasoning; which brings us full circle to why there are so many more believers than thinkers. My $.02 I'm pretty sure you're not suggesting that a haphazard approach (a little of this and a little of that, even though I know neither what the plant needs nor what I'm giving it) is a superior approach to a well-reasoned supplementation plan. Discounting all reason because we're satisfied with the status quo is self-limiting by default. BTW - if Punky's trees are in pots (don't think that was made clear), moving closer to how nature does things is an exercise fraught with obstacles. Growing in the ground and growing in pots are widely divergent cultures. On a scale of 1-10 with growing in the ground being a 1 and hydroponic growing a 10, conventional container culture is probably a 7 or 8. Al...See MoreWANTED: Low Light, Aquarium Plants (fresh water)
Comments (0)Hi, I currently have a 29 gallon aquarium and a newly establish 75 gallon aquarium. My shubunkins goldfish spawned with Comet goldfish in Dec. 2007 and the eggs hatched the day after Christmas. Now, I have a ton of baby goldfish that are apart of the family. The problem is that the parent fish are 6'' in length and dig and eat all of the plants that I have purchased for the tank. The only lasting plant is the lucky bamboo. Which is not really meant for aquariums. I would prefer to have live plants verse having artificial. However, it is getting quite costly to keep purchasing plants that the fish use as food. It's not that they are not getting any food, believe me they are, it seems that they are just greedy. It beats me how they seem to destroy them in as little as two weeks. Would anyone be willing to help me out with some aquarium plants? I have a nice establish garden and am willing to trade for durable, quality, low light aquariums (see my tradelist). In my request for low light, I do not have a grow light bulb on the tanks, just the standard florescent. Thanks for reading and providing any...See Moreanton_grower
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