Re: mellen, I'm glad you found this thread
Re: mellen, I'm glad you found this thread
So does that mean we shouldn't allow retailers such as yourself to use the business name as a screen name? You will notice I do not, and have not, used a link to my business in my sig. I am held to the same rules as you, so all is well
BTW the problem with making it sound like using straight tap or untreated well water is just fine and dandy in all circumstances is that it just isn't. I have lived in areas were the city water or the well water was quite fine to use untreated. I've also lived in areas where that aproach would be deadly to any inverts and sometimes even the fish :eek2: While most advanced hobbyiest know they need to take some of those issue's on a case by case basis, most newbies don't have a clue. It's the newbies that we need to watch for. In my area for example, the well water can vary tremendously depending the exact area and depth of the well. Some people have pesticide contaminated wells that just aren't usable without considerable treatment. In some areas the water is so soft and acidic that the copper is leached out of the plumbing at an incredable rate that even a heavily planted tank couldn't bind it up fast enough to prevent death of inverts. My current house and deep well comes up almost dead neutral in pH and has a high iron content has the only "problem", not a bad "problem" to have for a guy in the plant business
M'ellen,
Several years ago I used to maintain a FW plant tank in a store I had worked in. I fed lots of blackworms and got a nice population going in the substrate I also encouraged the growth of small Malaysian pond snails and trumpet snails. The only thing that kept me from going to a local pond was fear of predatory insect larvae :eek1: If was do a tank like that again today, I would likely go collect some mud from a pond
Re: mellen, I'm glad you found this thread
FloridaPets said:I do find it strange that I had my signature removed because it contained a link, but a retailer can use a retail name as a mod.???!!!
So does that mean we shouldn't allow retailers such as yourself to use the business name as a screen name? You will notice I do not, and have not, used a link to my business in my sig. I am held to the same rules as you, so all is well
BTW the problem with making it sound like using straight tap or untreated well water is just fine and dandy in all circumstances is that it just isn't. I have lived in areas were the city water or the well water was quite fine to use untreated. I've also lived in areas where that aproach would be deadly to any inverts and sometimes even the fish :eek2: While most advanced hobbyiest know they need to take some of those issue's on a case by case basis, most newbies don't have a clue. It's the newbies that we need to watch for. In my area for example, the well water can vary tremendously depending the exact area and depth of the well. Some people have pesticide contaminated wells that just aren't usable without considerable treatment. In some areas the water is so soft and acidic that the copper is leached out of the plumbing at an incredable rate that even a heavily planted tank couldn't bind it up fast enough to prevent death of inverts. My current house and deep well comes up almost dead neutral in pH and has a high iron content has the only "problem", not a bad "problem" to have for a guy in the plant business
M'ellen,
Several years ago I used to maintain a FW plant tank in a store I had worked in. I fed lots of blackworms and got a nice population going in the substrate I also encouraged the growth of small Malaysian pond snails and trumpet snails. The only thing that kept me from going to a local pond was fear of predatory insect larvae :eek1: If was do a tank like that again today, I would likely go collect some mud from a pond