Is gravel necessary for plants??

Hi..

Normal wood will rott and
contaminate the water.

Sunk (dead) wood and roots from trees along creeks or rivers
that grow into water or will free-rinsed by water like
alder or willow won't rott. Dead hardwood or hardwood roots
like oak or booking wood won't rott, too.

In water wood will rott extremely slow if it has no contact
to atmospheric air.

Basic conditions in aquaria are stable tanks, filter flow
and bark or mold fungi should be removed in advance.
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Marco

Bottom posted.
ko57 wrote:
Thanks you for the help and information! And thanks Elaine, I hope he
continues doing well I did read that for the banana lillies, if the
bananas got covered the plant grows taller and the leaves would get
larger. I'll figure out something on the gravel, either use what I
had or find the pea or flourite.

If the garden center at Walmart would have pea gravel can that be
used, washed real well, or should that be bought from lfs? And
bogwood-from a lfs or do you use what you find? If so do you boil it
or scald it? Thanks again,

Kerry

You could try sal****er driftwood (from the ocean) - I have a piece of that
in my fancy guppy/turtle tank and I never cleaned it and it is doing great.
According to some others here sal****er driftwood doesn't have to be cleaned
before being put in a freshwater tank. You can put freshwater driftwood in a
sal****er tank much the same way too. Definitely avoid putting like with
like though (freshwater driftwood in a freshwater tank) because of diseases,
etc.. Good luck and later!

Thanks again for all the help and information. The tip about the
driftwood, not putting similar source in same type tank-good to know
because I sure didn't before.

Kerry

Once again, another pic showing his dorsal fin growing more & more
(those rays?) more prominent:
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/View...cale=64 0x480