On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:14:23 -0700, "Tedd Jacobs"
wrote:


"dc" wrote...
"Gail Futoran" wrote in news:1ziQf.7369
:

The tea color in my 30G long finally disappeared after
a year or so. I miss it. Maybe it's time to put in a
new piece of driftwood.

There are black water additives you can buy at your LFS too.


thanks for this thread guys, this is one of the things i've been working on
with my 75 gal. (which, btw, is just about ready for stocking). :-)

If you go with one of the commercial black water additives, let us
know what you try and how it works for you. Some of these products
make some pretty big claims. Some are quite simple. Some are a regular
witch's brew of ingredients. There are claims of improving plant
health as well as Mark Weiss's concoction which claims to prevent the
ich parasite from sticking to the fish's skin.
-- Mister Gardener