Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!voder!tolerant!unisv!vanpelt
From: vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Fresh water plants
Summary: Wet, brown thumb
Message-ID: <332@unisv.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 18:20:13 GMT
References: <317@unisv.UUCP> <3599@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Organization: Unisys Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA
Lines: 17

In article <3599@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>What plants have you tried and failed at ? A lot of the really 
>decorative plants pet shops sell are not aquatic plants at all,
>but rather emersed plants that will turn brown and rot in < a fe
>months.
Anacharis, hornwort, cane plants, those hairy bulb things, (Truely awful;
they sprout a few long stalks with a little leaf at the top of the water,
then die.) several kinds of grass that would allegedly carpet the whole
bottom of the tank.  I have tried corkscrew vallisneria and the straight
kind, but that was some time ago; I can give it another try.  I have not
tried java fern.  I've never heard of it before, but I'll see if I can
find a place that carries it.  

Do you have this success with an undergravel filter?
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Mike Van Pelt           Unisys, Silicon Valley            vanpelt@unisv.UUCP
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