[AquaticLife] Contradictory info. on “lucky bamboo” plant
One of the things I have been toying around with is taking my emperor 400’s on my tank and joining them with a wider reservoir and putting plants, like “lucky bamboo” in it to filter some of the waster out of the water. The filters would still operate in a very similar fashion to what they do now, but they would have a larger and shallower reservoir attached to them. Obvious part of the back of the filer would be cut off to accommodate this. It’s all in a planning stage of sorts as I am not sure how I would do this, but I think it would greatly compliment my natural planted tanks.
Eric /*—–Original Message—– /*From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com] On /*Behalf Of Lenny V. aka GoldLenny /*Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 9:54 PM /*To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com /*Subject: RE: [AquaticLife] Contradictory info. on “lucky bamboo” plant /* /*If you want to use the plant in your tank to aid in filtration of the /*water, /*you could use a clear plastic hang-on-tank breeding separator and then put /*some river rocks and the lucky bamboo in it. It would be growing out of /*your tank but would work for a while. The reason I say a while is my /*lucky /*bamboo is nearly 3′ tall now… growing like crazy just off of weekly /*water /*changes and refilling the few inches of water with removed tank water. /*The /*lucky bamboo does not like tap water containing chlorine/chloramine but /*it /*loves fish water with the nutrients from the fish waste. /* /*Lenny Vasbinder /*Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com /* /* /*—–Original Message—– /*From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com] On /*Behalf Of Lisa Robinson /*Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 9:22 PM /*To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com /*Subject: RE: [AquaticLife] Contradictory info. on “lucky bamboo” plant /* /*Do you know of any attractive and/or creative ways to do this? /* /*My problem is that the plant is 7 inches tall and my tank is 2 ft deep. /* /* /* /*——————————— /* /* /* /*It is not a true aquatic plant. I’ve used them in a 2G Betta Vase before /* /*but I had them suspended where only the roots and the bottom couple of /* /*inches of the stalk were in the water. I’ve read posts by others who say /* /*they did have them in their tanks but they also had a couple of inches of /* /*air space or open top tanks so the stalks would grow out of the water and /* /*the leaves would be in the air. Every reputable site that I found about /* /*proper care said only a couple of inches of the stalks should be under /* /*water. /* /* /* /*Lenny Vasbinder /* /*Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com /* /* /* /* /* /*—–Original Message—– It says on the /* /* /* /*container it came in “Live Aquatic Plant - For Fresh Water Aquariums”. The /* /*scientific name /* /* /* /*of the plant is Dracaena Sanderiana. I learned via some reading on the net /* /*that /* /* /* /*it is commonly called the “Lucky Bamboo”. Now, here is where I’m all /* /*confused. /* /* /* /*Some people/forums/information say that it IS NOT submersible and others /*say /* /* /*it /* /* /* /*is completely submersible. What to you guys know about it? /* /* /*No virus found in this outgoing message. /*Checked by AVG. /*Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1329 - Release Date: 3/14/2008 /*12:33 PM /* /* /* /*———————————— /* /*Please DELETE this line and EVERYTHING below it when replying, thanks. /*.´¯`..¸¸.>..´¯`..¸¸..´¯`..¸> ¸…´¯`..¸. , ..´¯`…> /*PLEASE, when you REPLY to a post, DELETE all TEXT that is NOT important to /*the reply & if CHANGING the TOPIC of the original message MODIFY the /*SUBJECT LINE -> i.e. “new subject (was re: old subject)”
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