Reel McKoi said the following on 1/10/2008 1:21 PM:

"Randy Webb" wrote in message
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Reel McKoi said the following on 1/9/2008 10:41 PM:
Thanks Randy but I really don't have the time to mess with something
like that. I can kill all my fish if I make a mistake.
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That is very true. I tried it because I was setting up a plant tank.
The hope was to make it a planted and fish tank but I wanted the
plants established first, then introduce the fish. Since there were no
fish, I didn't have to worry about over-dosing the CO2.

One thing I have thought about doing was putting the T in it and let
one side just dump out (not into the tank) so that I could try to
regulate what is going into the tank.
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Keep us updated on your successes and failures. As much as I love
aquarium plants I like my fish more and would never do anything to
jeopardize their health.

Right now, I am trying to find a good, cheap substrate to use in the
tank. I want something that the plants can actually root and grow in
that won't cost me a fortune to use. As it is now, about half of them
are simply floating in the tank because I can't make up my mind what
kind of substrate to use. Don't want to just keep trying things, them
failing, and having to start all over again.

I read an article somewhere on the web that said you could use clay
based kitty litter but an experiment in a 5 gallon bucket to see what it
would do when totally wet looks like a bucket of mud and scared the crap
out of me.

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Randy
Chance Favors The Prepared Mind