You must be doing something right :)
Travis Haas
Appleton, WI
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:27:07 -0500
"Todd Crail" <farmertodd_at_buckeye-express.com> wrote:
>I stopped in to visit the tank I'd set up for the High
>School Biology class
>last year... It has been _completely_ negelected for 7
>months (no fish in it
>which I'm sure helped, but it was fed very heavily
>prior). It's scuzzy,
>don't get me wrong... But after I pull out a couple
>floating clumps of
>green algae that seemed to form on pieces of val that had
>broken off / died
>/ whatever, I think we're back in business. The rocks
>and substrate are
>totally clear, the glass barely needs scrubbed, the val
>maintained it's form
>without any nasty hair or blackbrush infections, even
>without the consistent
>micronutrient injections I find necessary. I was
>impressed.
>
>Mind you, this tank got _direct_ sunlight from the
>skylights all summer, so
>it wasn't from a lack of light (just one step shy of
>being in a greenhouse).
>I think that I'm actually looking at it in regression due
>to loosing that
>sunlight intensity through October and November :)
>
>The teacher was kinda like "Eww... " and I was like
>"Yes!" and she couldn't
>figure out why I didn't think big, gassy, floating mats
>of algae were
>disgusting, and I proclaimed it'd take me about 15
>minutes and I'd have the
>thing back and running at prime. I don't even think I'll
>do a waterchange
>:)
>
>I like 'dem apples.
>
>It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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