CHILLI RED
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anyone use those leaves to make black water or use other kinds of black water extracts?
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protoxeno
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Ok I ordered these K leaves on ebay from this amy lim person, when I put those leaves in it spawned a dozen of parasites so it was a big disaster. Of course I got my refund. I tried a piece of the leave in a smaller tank and after a few hours it spawned parasites again. So be careful.
FOSSILFISH
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Black Water.
How did you extract the tannins from the "K" leaves?
There are a few ways of doing it. I have used "K" leaves for almost a year and have never encountered parasites. What kind of parasites did U get? What do they look like? Sure they are not planaria worms?
I use a bit of "K" leaf tea for almost all my water changes. I do it gradually because it brings the PH down. But I am sold on the Anti bactiraial properties of the leaves.
How did you extract the tannins from the "K" leaves?
There are a few ways of doing it. I have used "K" leaves for almost a year and have never encountered parasites. What kind of parasites did U get? What do they look like? Sure they are not planaria worms?
I use a bit of "K" leaf tea for almost all my water changes. I do it gradually because it brings the PH down. But I am sold on the Anti bactiraial properties of the leaves.
ninjaturtle
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its called ketapang leave, you can also use extracts.. altho on the other sideo fo the world, k leave tends to be more popular n natural..
u dont necessarily need any of these tho, just do good water changes and keep ur water crisp n clean
DragonfishExotics
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I've heard a few stories of people switching to black water, using ketapang leaves, and their aro would stop eating. Havent experienced it myself, just what I heard.
Let me start by saying that I am no expert about Ketapang leaves. But I did, like Protoxeno, buy my Ketapang leaves from Ebay. I do not remember the name of the seller. I followed the instructions from the seller about how many leaves to put in the tank.
I noticed that my fish was a lot less stressed, and did eat more. But I found that it made the tank looks a lot less attractive, so I stopped. I did not get any parasites or problems with the leaves. I also have a lazy friend who is using black water to boost the color of his reds, but from peat extract though. It seems to work as his fishes looks very good.
I noticed that my fish was a lot less stressed, and did eat more. But I found that it made the tank looks a lot less attractive, so I stopped. I did not get any parasites or problems with the leaves. I also have a lazy friend who is using black water to boost the color of his reds, but from peat extract though. It seems to work as his fishes looks very good.
xbackgolden
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The method is to boil the ketapang leaves in water. THis will kill off all the parasites. This is wat we do locally.
GRANDDRAGON
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Hi I have also used Ketapang leaves for about a year and have not encountered any parasites at all. I had purchased from the same seller and also another seller from another online store. This is the first time that I have heard of this type of leave spawning parasites. If you keep any type of plants in your aquarium, then I could see the bugs or parasites coming off either the plants or waste from your fish to get a food source from the leaves. But the leaves actually carrying parasites I do not think it would happen. I brewed the leaves with 2 different methods and have never come up with any parasites.
protoxeno
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How did you extract the tannins from the "K" leaves?
There are a few ways of doing it. I have used "K" leaves for almost a year and have never encountered parasites. What kind of parasites did U get? What do they look like? Sure they are not planaria worms?
I use a bit of "K" leaf tea for almost all my water changes. I do it gradually because it brings the PH down. But I am sold on the Anti bactiraial properties of the leaves.
I got these things that is circular looking with a few legs, not legs but more precisely wiggle dots...does that make sense? I just stick it in the tank and an hour later those parasite blooms. I didn't boil them b4 I put it in but just straight from the bag.