Re: [tropical fish club] How to weight plants down?

The DNR person told me that all fishermen should be using the lead free
weights to fish. The lead leaches into the water. I would think the same
would be true for your aquarium water. Donna

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Larry Blanchard <labl@comcast.net> wrote:

>
>
> Brandi C wrote:
> > The reason I was considering putting silicone on the the plastic base is
> > because I don't have the tools to drill holes into the tiles. So I
> thought
> > I would just take silicone and run a bead on each side of the long clear
> > plastic base that snaps on and off of the plants and then if I did ever
> > decide to take them off, I thought I could simply run a razor blade to
> > remove them from the tile and razor blade it off the plastic base
>
> I bought some rubber disks from an online plant supplier. They are
> slotted into 4 fingers that you poke the plant through and they push
> against the stem. I used them on live plants, but they should work for
> plastic ones as well. Putting one of those lead weights someone else
> mentioned below the disk should keep the plastic from sliding up as well
> as adding weight.
>
> Larry B
>
>

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