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What do you do when you transfer plants in from your LFS?
Rinse with Hot/Cold Water ? Treat in any way?

Also, if i were to move plants from one tank to another, would I want to Treat? same process as above?

Just wondering

As for new plants, I rinse them off with warm water, and QT them as well. Mostly for snails and what ever else may be on them. If they need treatment, I treat accordingly. As for transfer from one tank to another? Well I only treat if they come out of a tank that has had an illness in it, or snails in it. Other wise, I just move them to the new tank.

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Occassionally I might wash a plant usually at the same temp as the tank.

But before I buy any plant I have a very good look if I even see one sick/dead fish, one snail or any of that terrible duck weed I will not buy under any circumstances at all.

Call me fussy if you want to but my tank is more important than taking any unnecessary risks.

Keith

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Hi,
When you purchase plants from the LFS, you should wash
them under running water (luke warm). While doing that
run your fingers along each part of the plant feeling
for snails, or clumps of snail eggs and removing them
while you are doing it. This is the time to remove
any pale, yellowing, or dead leaves from the plant.
Also remove any brown or mushy feeling roots. Healthy
roots will normally be fairly firm and white, aging
roots will be black(dead) or browish.

I'm not in favor of QTing plants. If you wash them
carefully, you will find the unwanted riders (snails)
and at the same time flood the plant with fresh running
water which will remove the "old" LFS water and any
diseases or parasites that might be in the water.

Whenever you uproot a plant, and then replant it, it
takes the plant some time to reacclimate itself to the
new environment. During that time ( as long as a couple
of weeks) it is forced to consume stored nutrients,
much like a hibernating bear. During that time it sends
out new, fresh roots, and the main roots "shrink".
If you leave the plant in the QT tank for a few months,
that is one thing, but generally, folks don't have that
patience and they move it a week or two later to the
permanant tank, which sets the plant back yet again.

Some folks will also immerse the freshwater plant in
a saltwater mix (using aquarium salt and mixed to the
same specific gravity as a salt water tank). Others
wash them in a permanganate mixture. All designed
to kill any "hitch hikers."


Frank


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