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Like cypress bonsai or saplings? Can you offer more details or pics?
It's been 40 years ago now, I know I don't have any digital pics but if I come across any physical pics I'll see if I can scan them. Most of them were outside in a greenhouse but I used a small cypress stump I collected at a construction site to grow in a 20g l aquarium I set up in a enclosure lit by a strong fluorescent light fixture. The stump put out branches and leaves and grew for several years in that and other aquariums and ponds. I grew my own cypress, water tupelo, pumpkin ash and other swamp trees from seeds I collected in the swamp.
 

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In one 125 I had a small grove of cypress trees I allowed to grow to around 18" above the water line, then I kept them trimmed, the tank was set up about 5 years. I used 12 trees clustered around one end of the tank. They absorbed nutrients from the water in a heroic manner! The roots twisted and curled all over the bottom of the tank making an unique substrate. The cardinal tetras and other small fishes loved it!
 

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That’s probably true but the book it for fish that are found or often found in Freshwater.
I did manage to keep one in freshwater for a couple months one summer, he jumped out and I lost him but the heat had turned his pool into green water in the greenhouse.
 
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Hey, are atlantic sharpnosed sharks listed as coming into freshwater I that book?
I don't know what the book says but lake george is where you want to go if you're looking for them in fresh water.
 
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