Trust me an do thers on this., CArol Gulley aka Zebulon certainly is
sorry in more ways than one! Adivce from her has been known to be
wrong and cause problems so use it with caution.


On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 19:17:36 -0600, Zëbulon
wrote:


"Tara Legale" wrote in message
...
I always thought that the more light, the more algae. I keep the tank off
all day when I'm at work, and turn it on at 5PM when I get home... off
around 11 or 11:30 when I go to bed.

I'm sorry. I was not clear on that. If you have "live plants" they must get
at least 10 hours of good strong light.

I live in a small town and the closest big pet store is 100 miles. I
typically make one or two trips in the summer, never noticed any plants.
Will look when I drive there in spring.

If you do buy live plants get the low-light kind and do make sure they're
aquarium plants. Perhaps look up aquarium plants on Google, print out a few
pictures to take with you to make sure they don't get those worthless
houseplant cuttings so many places sell.



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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!