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Originally Posted by Tindomul1of9
Oh, is that StarWort? I believe you can find the stuff growing in freshwater wetlands around the North East. Very cool!
CO2 canisters is what I have been missing. I just don't want to go through all the trouble. How do natural ponds and rivers do it?? I suppose by having enough natural CO2 producers in the water. Thanks! That ground cover looks incredible.
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starwort?? you mean the ground cover? i don't think so, but its a common name and who knows really... its actually from cuba, and we imported it only a few years ago. i still have not seen anyone else claiming to find it growing wild anywhere but in cuba. i sell the stuff like mad to hobbysists all over the world for a pretty penny.
and you mean you don't have a few co2 tanks lying around?
IMO you aren't a horticulturalist till you have more co2 tanks and regulators than projects to use them on!
also....ponds and rivers make lots of co2 by the decomposition of of organic material.. but also, atmospheric co2 moves into solution some... its really much more complicated than that. but in truth, very little is really known about how it all works in nature. most algae research has been done in oceans, and in general threre is lack of understandnig and consensus about how it all works in nature. in the aquarium we just blast our tanks with extra co2, and let the scientists duke it out.
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