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Hi Peter,
Thank you very much for your elaborate answer. I’m glad that I seem to have entered a “non commercialised” aquarium community!
I was already planning to buy a copy of the paro-buche – German is not that different from Dutch – as I want to be well prepared before I start with paros.
Concerning your remarks on the topic – do you think the soil in itself will have a negative impact on the specific water requirements of the paros, or do you think it is impossible to maintain enough fastgrowing plants to take up all of the nitrogen? Why are the water changes necessary? This is to remove exces nitrogen and prevent a nitrogen build-up?
In the last case I am convinced that with a few adaptations, the need to do waterchanges can be ruled out or kept to a minimum, by using adapted plants. I know that for example Spathyfillum species trive on very soft an acidic water, take up loads of nitrogen and trive in the aquarium, as long as their foiliage is above the waterlevel. Other species, such as dracena braunii (lucky bamboo) can serve this purpose. Again, this is against common knowledge as to which plants are absolutely not suiitable for use in an aquarium, but no less true in practice!
And what about the temperature? Is room temperature ok for paros (as in 18-22°C in winter and early spring up to 22-26°C during summer and early autumn)?
Spathyfillum in aquarium, roots in the soil at the bottom. New leaves every two weeks, flowering regularly. On the left dracena braunii, producing vast leaf-mass.
