Matt_95

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I'll make the base layer of sand thicker to elabate my substrate, I'll also mix in some chelated micro nutrients with some coconut fibre to ensure I don't run out of that. I will also probably add some work castings or mineralized top soil for bonding sites for nutrients to prevent excess nutrients leaching out. Oh and I will also add KSO4 to ensure I don't run out of K, that's a problem even in tanks with soil, it isn't present in large amounts in fish food and is a macro nutrient so it gets rapidly depleted from the substrate.

Why do chemistry professors like to teach about ammonia? Because it's basic material. What do you do with a dead chemists? Barium

I'm almost decided that I'll use this method for my next scape... I will adapt it though to ensure that it will meet all of my needs. I think you will like my new scape :D

That's so funny!!! I get chemistry jokes... Not physics jokes though seriously, physics is not funny.

I love dosing H2O2!!! It feels so good to destroy the algae haha. it bubbles because the peroxide is made up of 2 hydrogen atoms and two oxeygen atoms, when it reacts one of the oxeygen atoms is ripped off and imediatly bonds to another forming O2 gas. Sorry, I'm a chemistry nut... I love dosing H2O2!!! It feels so good to destroy the algae haha. it bubbles because the peroxide is made up of 2 hydrogen atoms and two oxeygen atoms, when it reacts one of the oxeygen atoms is ripped off and imediatly bonds to another forming O2 gas. Sorry, I'm a chemistry nut...

Just found a dead adult no idea what went wrong all the rest look healthy, still have shrimplets...

Don't remember them sorry.... Would be black with PB though.

It can't grow like next to the cave? That's the best position for a focal point IMO. Pull it up so only an inch of roots are out and cut them off at that point. You'll never kill it by cutting the leaves off lol they will just keep sprouting.

This one? I think it was labeled panther... I don't really like albino fish...

Thanks, these guys are really cool, clear with lots of spots, I'll send some off to be ID'd because I can't find any ID online or in books. You could have both I'll hapily give you 10 or so to start you off Give in Jarrod, give in :P

Looks great Paul, I would move the lotus to the first 1/3 it draws teh eye to the front and is very much your focus point and they look best positioned at the 1/3 mark.

They ane nice, I don't think we have the pinoy ghost here, from memory its a cross between the platinum blue and a ghost, the plantinum blue gene is also called the philapean blue or pinoy for short The second looks photoshopped, mine have that blue sheen but is only at certain angles... I am thinking either the black hybrid angel or gold pearlscale.

Cherry shrimp don't need a chiller and have great colour so do the yellows but they go for around $130 each lol, collecting some natives on my birthday :D

I found some shrimplets yesterday, they are too cute! They already have colour! One looks to be SS grade :D

Its okay, I'll have a bunch of babis swimming around to replace them soon, watching the interactions of the pair is also more entertaining than the group. I was planning on trying another strain soon anyway.

I've read conflicting information on pollinating this one, from what I have read though if the flower is self fertile it needs some help from us to be pollinated. Mine is throwing a stalk now but its leaves are deformed, in terrestrial plants I would assume something has damaged the growing tip, hopefully it will correct itself.

They appear to be getting ready for another spawn, getting territorial and cleaning of the crypts again, the crypts have responded with melting after they picked holes in the leaves! I think I have to get rid of the other angels they don't get along anymore, I may put the pair in a 2 foot tall tank and sell of these guys and get some black angels that I saw at Fishchicks last week.

Thats a great deal someone! I will have to try get mum to bring me down on the 28th... after all it is my birthday :D

You can also use it to make fermented drinks, I was going to make lemonade then realised it would be alcoholic.... You could use one of those air line splitters to hook it all together and change them periodically so when one is begining to die off the others are still productive.

If you google "dutch aquascape" you will see that they have very dense bunches of plants, they do this with rigerous trimming to promote side shoots. You dust a water colour brush over the flower to fertilise it and the seeds form with a soft spongey coat, they float off and germinate then sink to the bottom and begin growth. Make sure you get all of the pieces of HM out, it will regrow its self from tiny leaf fragments, I find it a weed now, that and the fact it has decided to try to become a carpeting plant and is begining to take over my foreground with runners.

Thanks Jarrod! I only try to help, glad I can. I was doing some reading for you, turns out you can teather together multiple bottles of CO2 to provide a more consistent and larger supply, you could also make a DIY internal venturi reactor to ensure 100% absorbtion. I'll be buying some KNO3 soon Paul, I looked on EBAY, its all in large quanitities, I'm buying some more soon, I'd be more than happy to share some with you, you would never use a kilo lol, I don't think I would eaither! I've been using lab grade, didn't get much... You could try a black out but you need so wrap up the entire tank to ensure no light gets in... It can adversly affect your plants as well.

Looks great Jarrod, vacuuming even once a month could lead to problems further down teh track, it is the only soorce of some nutrients down the track when they are no longer available in the substrate, From memory blood and bone is comprised mainly of Ca and P, clay will have mainly iron bonded to it, it forms a bond stronger than the other micronutrients so they would proabably be in very short supply. It will be interesting to see how it goes anyway :)If you run into problems I'm sure it could be remidied with additions of chelated micronutrients. Only advice from me would be to trim the HM and Ludwigia (glandulosa?)down very low to promote branching and bushier growth. How come you didn't try to propagate the apon?

A quick google says up nitrates and CO2, try to get a hold of some potasium nitrate, that is what I use, you can find tubs on ebay.