Re: aquarium water
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- Subject: Re: aquarium water
- From: T* H*
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 09:34:44 -0800
>When I empty out 10 gallons or so of my 30 gallon fresh
>water tank each week for cleaning, purposes, that water
>looks pretty scuzzy. It's full of dead food, the occasional
>dead fish, ;-( an awful lot of bacteria, which is both generated
>and added in each week by me, fish manure, I guess,
>AMQUEL aquarium detoxifier - stuff to take the chlorine
>out, water conditioner to stabilize the ph, and I
>cannot read the label on that one to tell you what it
>is, plant-gro fertilizer at .03-0.8-0.8, and water
>conditioner with ferrous iron. Of course, I've been
>dumping this water on my plants and garden.
>I'm assuming this is a very good thing. Any
>thoughts? Opinions? Feedback?
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Yes - get rid of your pollution factory !! Your description
boggles my mind and the thought of all those chemicals
on your vegetables quivers my tummy muscles ! ;- ))
OOPS ! maybe that's not a *vegetable* garden ??
Seriously, though, the picture you paint is not a pretty one -
especially about the chemicals. My son's aquarium has
a bottom filter and the water hasn't required that much effort
or expense ..... and if you are really putting all those
chemicals into the water, it does *not* seem like a
good idea to put the "waste" water on a vegetable garden .....
I'm reading a textbook on botany that's telling me plants
will take up whatever minerals/chemicals are in the earth
around their roots along with the water the roots need to
make food .....
Toni Hawryluk - in dreary Seattle - when the sun shines we
forget it all ..... OK - when will the next sun-sighting be ..... ??
Toni
