Hi Ray,
it is great you found a way of answering/participating with less computer trouble!
Thanks for the info about root tablets!
Yes, I used aquarium root tablets and maybe I did not push them deep enough into the gravel. With all the plants in the gravel I do not vacuum the gravel anymore which means a rather big cloud comes out whenever I disturb the gravel. So I hardly change anything and probably added the tablets too shallow (I will push them in deeper next time).
The water and fish seem great without the "vacuum cleaning" so I hope that is ok and works for the tank also for a longer time ?! I do the same for our second 10 G with same results for now.
I wonder: why is cleaning the gravel with the siphon usually recommended? Is it important or an option and with plants less urgent?
Thanks again,
Nora
--- In AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com, sevenspringss@... wrote:
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> Hi Nora,
>
> You haven't mentioned what kind of root tablet fertilizers you're using.
> I'm sure you know not to use root tablets designed for terrestrial/house
> plants. Then too, the various kinds/brands of aquarium root tab ferts may have
> different ingredients and/or can react differently in the substrate, with
> some releasing nutrients into the water column. Sometimes this release is
> very dependent upon how you use the tablets -- how well you re-cover the
> substrate over the tabs after you push them down between the roots.
>
> Some root tab fertilizers will even release part of their ammonium content
> into the water column, resulting in a partial mini-cycle as bacteria will
> feed on it right in mid water. This may be the cloudiness you see. As the
> plants can't take up all of this suuden addition of fertilizers all at once,
> you need to push the tablets down into the substrate a good distance.
> Chopping them in pieces is also a good idea rather than leaving them as a whole
> tablet. Aquarium-designed "Plant-Tabs" are formulated quite well, and are
> safe for fish. I've never had nothing but good results wih them whenever I've
> used them.
>
> I'm glad to hear, that you're glad to see more of me on here lately. As
> it's much more difficult for me to get up on the Home Page right now to reply
> or post from there, I've decided to reply right to the Yahoogroup emails
> received at my email in-box. The major problem with this is that the message
> I'm reply to doesn't appear under mine. The reader must first read the
> Subject Line to make sure to know which thread is being replied to. I have to
> make sure to address everyone by name, at the start of my messages, so that
> it's unmistakeable who I'm replying to (which I try to usually do anyway).
> The previous message may need to be gone back to though and read again, if it
> gets difficult to follow what I'm replying to.
>
> Ray</HTML>
>
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