Re: aquarium water



loretta gerity jacobs wrote:

>
>  10 gallons  of  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.

Sounds good to me. I wouldn't pour directly on any plant you may end up
eating raw (fish fecal matter may be digestively upsetting), but it
sounds like what you would get if you you  used water from a local pond
(contains fish, snails, slimy critters, etc. and their byproducts) with
the added benefit of some chemical fertilizer.  I am not chemical
phobic, having been quite happy to learn from Karl Hoover that what we
call in the US white gas is about the same as the mysterious petroleum
ether shown to be helpful in germinating seeds containing  inhibiting
resins. I have lots of the stuff around, for use in backpacking stoves
and the all american standard, the Coleman lantern, and look forward to
testing its ues on seeds
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