throwing away clippings...want em? trade?

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geoffgarcia (Guest)

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Hey friends...

Its such a waste when I clip/prune at the end of the week and throw out a small pile of beautiful plants.  I clip off the tops and just toss em, and usually have 3-6  6inch pieces of each of the following:

Something that looks like these pictures...maybe Hydrophila? no idea:
http://www.tropica.com/052a.htmlhttp://www.tropica.com/50.htm

something that looks like this picture...maybe Ceratophylum?:
http://www.aquazoo.co.uk/page.cfm/type=Plants/PlantID=26

Definatly Rotala Macaranda :
http://www.tropica.com/032.html

(I'm also in the process of growing chain swords, micro swords, wendetii?, riccia, java moss, java ferns-but they haven't been growing as quickly as the above stuff)

Anyway...my tank is only a 15 gallon, so I can't give clippings to everyone out there all the time, but I've just helped establish my roomates 29 gallon, and its already overgrown with the same plants after 2 lots of clippings....

if you want clippings let me know and I'll let them get extra long and ship them out to you, I don't want any money, but only feel like doing it if you'd pay the shipping (I assume like 2-3$?) OR exchange for some of your clippings!!! I'll take ANYTHING! (but I'd really appreciate the clippings first!)

WARNING: There is a 99.9999% chance that my plants will come with snails or eggs or stuff like that on them. My tank is silly full of Malasian Trumpet snails, no other snails. They don't eat plants (or at least not my plants), they are VERY  VERY small and look like a cornocopia (tubular)...they stand under the substrate and move around cleaning out the debris and only come out to be seen when the lights go off...if you want to trade for snails please warn me what kind you have...I don't want any others so I'd want to wash/disinfect them first*haha*

My 15 gallon has 1-4 inches of Volcanit substrate (hill) and I dose it with Jobe sticks monthly as well as Flourish Excel, and Iron (1ml every other day). I have 60 watt DIY hood on it, so its getting like 4 watts per gallon...(crazy I know!) and I dose it with DIY CO2....I've run my tank with 40 watts (2.6 per gallon) and these plants did fine in that also...(my roomies tank is 60watts on a 29 and it does fine with these very same plants with no C02)
just to give you an idea of the conditions...

I dont' know if this goes against any "forum rules" if it does I'm sorry and please close the thread...
Geoff
email :geoffgarcia@hotmail.com
 

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dattack

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[quote author=aquariumguy link=board=classified&num=997112269&start=0#1 date=11/24/01 at 15:56:23]
hey....i would be interseted in some of the clippings...will they grow just like regular plants? get in touch w/me at hughesty@earthlink.net ;D
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tizme

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Oct 22, 2002
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Re: throwing away clippings...want em?

Would love some Ceratophyllum Demersum, but right now, I have nothing to trade.  In the process of establishing new tank.  Tis why I could use them.

Anyhew... let me know if you're still interested. :D

taniea_gillis@hotmail.com
 

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daver

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I too am interested next time you have some clippings, I'm just getting my 20gal started up again after being out of the hobby for quite some time. I don't have any clippings to trade, but I can paypal (or mail you) money for shipping of course. Let me know!
Thanks
Dave

dave@ratcliffelaw.com
 

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colesea

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Oct 22, 2002
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Hey, I'd actually be interested in some of the snails...<G>

I don't have anything to trade, unless you want some rocks. I've got lots of pretty cool rocks. I'll even scrub an' clean 'em for you. <G>

But yeah, I have been trying to find those snails everywhere, but it seems the LFS are so snail phobic (Beyond the apples, incas, and ram's horns they charge $1.99 for each) that they don't have any crawlies in their tanks.

Let me know if you ever want to off-load some snails and we can perhaps work out a deal of some kind.
~~Colesea
 

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I'm extremely interested in riccia and some of those trumpet snails. I started a 20g plant tank a little while back but had to treat my main tank with Aquarisol. I put three ramshorn snails in with the plants and they had a feast! Fortunately they made up for it by laying tons of eggs, so my plant tank turned into a snail breeding tank instead. A few days ago I set up a 55g corner tank with a big chunk of African Swahala Root wood in it. I thumb tacked on a bunch of Java Moss that I was fortunate enough to find on a recent trip to San Francisco and stuck some plants I hope are Java ferns into some of its cracks. The tank is quite deep, I hope this won't affect the growth of the plants too much, what do you think?
 

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