Dumping your Aquarium Contents, NOT!!

[steelhealr]

It's sad..if you think that a beautiful clean lake enjoyed by families for years is now destroyed. Imagine the cabomba we keep in our tanks, now yards long and almost like kelp. I would think that some poor individual who wasn't thinking, probably was shutting down an aquarium and felt badly about throwing his/her plants away, so. tossed them in the lake. Essentially, most of the plants we keep in our aquariums are 'weeds'. That's why we have them, they are very hardy and survive in a closed ecosystem.

I agree above..dredging is only temporary. As for our freezing weather, it's my impression from the article that this is now going on 2 seasons and we had a very cold winter last season. SH

 

[Opcn]

Calupera is the oceanic weed thats taken over quite a few places, fortunately in marine ecosystems there are lots of different species of critters (most commonly neudebranchs, sea slugs) that have evolved to eat one and only one type of algea and as a result its easy to bring in biocontrol to help cut down a population to a managable size.

 

[Fiori]

I often wondered if letting snails loose in the ecosystem would be a problem - so to be on the safe side, when I pick the pesky things out my tanks, I squish 'em, or feed them to my angel. The rate they seem to breed in my tanks, we would be overcome by them in no time

 

[Synirr]

heh, "free cabomba" is like saying "free tribbles" or "free guppies"...

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Hey, my oscar would like some free guppies!

 

[CFC]

We actually have a problem from this plant here in England too. A little backwater i used to fish as a kid is now completely choked up with the stuff in a carpet so thick you cannot even see there is water there, the local river authority dredge the place twice every summer but it comes back thicker than ever after a couple of months.

Maybe they should introduce a few thousand silver dollars to eat the damn stuff, ive yet to find a plant they wont eat in a aquarium