We have four watercress beds in use, with organic status, and an additional four beds adjacent which we do not want to run water through. They have a shale base and high water table and we are wanting to find a vegetable / plant / herb that would be suitable for those conditions and would be...

http://books.google.com/books?id=0DgEAAAAYAAJ Contains "letters from Generals Washington, Lee and Schuyler, and from John Adams, never before published." More details The lives and services of Major General John Thomas, Colonel Thomas Knowlton, Colonel Alexander Scammel, Major General Henry...

Greetings All I'm doing a little experiment with growing plants and the effects vary magnetic fields on them. I would like to grow plants in a test tube and measure there growth. What types of seeds would be the best to use that's fast growing and will grow in water. I know I could use bean...

My dam has red azolla (azolla filiculoides) which is a native floating aquatic fern. I would like to harvest it to use it as a mulch and to add to compost. I imagine there are several tons of the stuff. The question is how to gather it. A net scoop would work around the edges but this sounds...

Petco near me now has Marimo Balls and Riccia portions for anyone who is interested.

I have been experimenting with do it yourself micronutrients. I obtained some hydrochloric acid from Lowes and use it to make ferric chloride, zinc chloride, etc. I obtained some sulfuric acid from a battery company and use it to make ferric sulfate, zinc sulfate, etc. And, of course, only a...

Can someone please guide me UK equivalent of these products (http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?Q=1&I=LXG849&P=M) and where can I buy them in UK please? Necessary for DIY CO2 set. Regards Apro. -- Have a nice day :)

Happy New Year! We have a great speaker lined up this month to start us off, too. Gerald Griffin will speak on "Wild Bettas". Gerald is the chair of the International Betta Congress' Species Maintenance Program. He will discuss care, keeping, breeding, and conservation of all manner of wild...

Happy Holidays to you! This month our speaker will be Dr. Dario Valenzano. He will be speaking about Nothobranchius Killifish. I'm a killifish nut myself, so I'll be there! Our speaker will start at 7pm. Come early for social hour, order food, and check-in for the auction and bowl show. We meet...

I found these flowers and planted them right on the edge of the pond water. My pond is 12 by 12.. with waterfalls. Its not done yet but.... here is a photo of the flowers that grew really well and also gave shade to the moss waterfalls. I can not remember the name of the flowers. Heres the...

Now this is a classis all dredged back up by TYNK. http://groups.google.co.uk/group/reclaimourfishgroups/browse_thread/thread/54bc6166fb877a6d#

While the local library has a lot of books about microalgae and surface bound macroalgae, planktonic macroalgae/plants are – if at all – only mentioned in foot notes. I'm looking for plant(including algae) species that are at least 0.4mm large and tolerate the following habitat: - free-floating,...

The recurrent theme for this year for the Silicon Valley Aquarium Society has been speakers unable to come at the last minute. It has happened once again this month. Our previously announced speaker is unable to come. Don't worry though, our own Chuck Rambo will be giving a Lake Malawi Travelog. We...

I am looking for additional mechanical filtration. Anyone happened to have an old Marineland magnum 350?

The previous post is about the Silicon Valley Aquarium Society MegaAuction. -Helen Holzgrafe Publicity Silicon Valley Aquarium Society

Mark your calendar for Saturday, October 4th for our annual MegaAuction - all auction, all night. Last year we had over 350 items sold. Let's break that record this year! We will start checking in items at 6:15pm and the auction will start at 6:45. There will be a huge raffle, too. This is one of...

Awhile back, I set aside a 25g aquarium for the culture of Marimo Balls, no fish in it. All the data I have read on them call them slow growing, and this may be true--in their natural habitat. But, as necessary, a few drops of Shultz Liquid Fertilizer (10-15-10 and NO copper), a bit of lime,...

Please join us this Saturday for another great meeting of the Silicon Valley Aquarium Society. Our originally scheduled speaker, Art North, has had a family emergency and will not be speaking. Our thoughts are with him during a difficult time. We wish him and his family well. We are very happy to...

John Smith wrote: ... I had first noticed this problem when friends who had recently purchased new fish had tanks with the disease cropping up. The mortality rate of their fish is astronomical and none of the treatments I gave/suggested were working ... Regards, JS

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