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- From: aab@cichlid.com (Andy Burgess)
- Subject: Re: pond underweater plants
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.191701.10898@cichlid.com>
- Organization: Independent Software Contractor
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:17:01 GMT
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- In <ByvEIE.ALy@well.sf.ca.us> lp@well.sf.ca.us (Lily Pond) writes:
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- >Does anyone in the Berkeley area have more pond under water (oxygenating)
- >plants than they need, or know of a source for cheap ones? They're so
- >expensive at the aquarium stores, and my fish have been eating them too fast
- >for them to really grow. Thanks.
-
- Underwater oxygenating plants are a pondkeepers myth -- they add scant
- oxygen to the water and in darkness actually compete with fish for oxygen.
- Water is oxygenated at the surface by absorbing atmospheric oxygen.
- Circulation and agitation will increase the amount of oxygen in
- water. Only grow plants if you like the way they look.
-
- Andy
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