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From: gary@grc.UUCP (Gary Sutcliffe)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Freshwater Plants
Keywords: suitable pots
Message-ID: <829@grc.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 18:25:39 GMT
Reply-To: gary@grc.UUCP (Gary Sutcliffe)
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Organization: GENROCO, Inc., Slinger, WI
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The saucer shaped part of clay flower pots that holds excess water works
very well for potting aquatic plants.   It is rather shallow, so it does not
stick above the gravel, but has room for the roots to spread out.  I also
have an Amazon Sword plant that is doing very well in a cut down cottage 
cheese container.

I usually put about 1/4 to 1/2 inch garden soil (mine is mostly clay)
in the bottom of the pot.  The rest is gravel.

With all the talk about UG filters being bad or indifferent to plants,
has anyone done or known of an experiment where one half of the tank had
an UG filter and the rest was just gravel?  It would be nice to see a more
controlled experiment than someone's word that the plants died in his tank
with an UG but were fine in the other.
-- 
Gary Sutcliffe  W9XT                             (414) 644-8700
GENROCO, Inc.  Slinger, Wis.
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