Killing Undesirables On Collected Plants
#1 Guest_deepsky_*
Posted 26 November 2007 - 04:06 PM
So what do you recommend for getting rid of hydra and any other undesirable critters that may be on your plants? If you use bleach what percentage?
I collected some new plants today and don't want to kill them all again.
An interesting (at least to me) side note. My first stop today was at a state park visitor center to see if they would mind me collecting some plants from near the boat ramp. They said this was not allowed in state parks but as I was talking to them a Missouri DNR naturalist overheard the conversation and we got to talking about native plants for use in home aquariums. He mentioned that I would be hard pressed to find any suitable native submergent plants near the ramps at any of the nearby public accesses. He said my best bet would be to find a spring branch feeding into the river and look for plants in this very cold water.
Do you think he was right? Does anyone have any tips on what areas of streams are most likely to have native species?
While at the visitors center I bought a book entitled something along the lines of "Native plants for Missouri Ponds". Even though it was written for land owners with ponds the book is supposed to cover most of the native as well as the introduced plants found in Missouri waters. I'll look through it this week to see what I've got in my collecting bucket this time. My fish are all native and I'd like my plants to be as well!
Mark
#2 Guest_tglassburner_*
Posted 26 November 2007 - 04:10 PM
So what do you recommend for getting rid of hydra and any other undesirable critters that may be on your plants? If you use bleach what percentage?
I collected some new plants today and don't want to kill them all again.
My fish are all native and I'd like my plants to be as well!
Mark
I've often wondered this as well. And locating native plants would be a good thing to learn as well.
Tom
#3 Guest_fuzzyletters_*
Posted 26 November 2007 - 04:17 PM
Here's a link I found on one thread just doing a quick search on Aquatic Plant Central:
http://www.aquariapl...ntdipsbaths.htm
#4 Guest_deepsky_*
Posted 26 November 2007 - 05:43 PM
Mark
Here's a link I found on one thread just doing a quick search on Aquatic Plant Central:
http://www.aquariapl...ntdipsbaths.htm
#5 Guest_nativeplanter_*
Posted 26 November 2007 - 05:48 PM
In filterless tanks, I often find a great array of tiny critters crawling around on the glass (especially copopods), if there aren't small fish to eat them. I find them rather neat to watch.
#6 Guest_puchisapo_*
Posted 04 December 2007 - 02:07 AM
a ~15 min in a dilute bleach solution (10 mil/liter, or thereabouts) has worked well for me. although it can burn the tips of leaves and roots, i have observed that plants recover quickly after such treatment.
a softer method that i tried recenently was a dip in ethanol/water solution followed by hydrogen peroxide. it seems to have killed all the hitchhikers, including algae, but did not affect the plants.
#7 Guest_nativeplanter_*
Posted 04 December 2007 - 12:25 PM
On that note, I have learned never to keep your prized plants with prized livestock, so that I never have to medically treat one at the expense of the other.
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