fastfly48
Aquarium Advice Freak
Hello all, and everyone else...bad joke.
ok well I was looking at my tank tday (big surprise) and randomly thought of adding some bamboo clippings into the mix. I have some bamboo in the garden and I though that perhaps I coulsd cut off some (with-out the leaves) and stick it in my gravel in the tank...to give a kind of vertical element to the aqua-scape. I've seen some stores growing bamboo in thier tanks, but I don't want to grow it I just want to use some clipppings from the garden as ornements. So is this this possible?
I'm gussing the problems would be:
= the bamboo leaching nutrients from the water or polluting the water
= keeping the shoots in the gravel, though a wieght will fix that...
= the life span of the bamboo and how long it qould last in water...
I would clean the clippings up really well and leave them in boilinf water for a week or two.
Hope does this all sound?
I don't know what kind of bamboo we have but (obviously) it's not aquatic, but that's ok becasue I'm not looking to grow it or anything.
Any help/advice would be super duper.
Keep it cool
Ryland
ok well I was looking at my tank tday (big surprise) and randomly thought of adding some bamboo clippings into the mix. I have some bamboo in the garden and I though that perhaps I coulsd cut off some (with-out the leaves) and stick it in my gravel in the tank...to give a kind of vertical element to the aqua-scape. I've seen some stores growing bamboo in thier tanks, but I don't want to grow it I just want to use some clipppings from the garden as ornements. So is this this possible?
I'm gussing the problems would be:
= the bamboo leaching nutrients from the water or polluting the water
= keeping the shoots in the gravel, though a wieght will fix that...
= the life span of the bamboo and how long it qould last in water...
I would clean the clippings up really well and leave them in boilinf water for a week or two.
Hope does this all sound?
I don't know what kind of bamboo we have but (obviously) it's not aquatic, but that's ok becasue I'm not looking to grow it or anything.
Any help/advice would be super duper.
Keep it cool
Ryland