thedarkstar

Ottos sure won't damage plants

There are a few different species of garter snakes that live here, which explains the different colorations.

Like all filters, they need regular maintenance. Mine gets the filter floss changed every month or so, the sponges squeezed out in siphoned tank water and the like. And some of it is part of bio-filtration, the bacteria colonize the filter media so rinsing it with the sink can sometimes cause spikes in your ammonia/etc as the bacteria recolonize.' I've learnt the hard way that if your HOB doesn't get cleaned enough, it can plug up and overflow enough to pre-soak your basement carpets for washing lol.

Watching them swim is quite a sight as well. They do normally live by water from what I've seen.

If you're lucky, it should flower. But the babies usually grow out from the stalk that shoots up if I'm not mistaken.

I'd definitely be in if I had means of getting there haha. Guess all you can do is cross fingers and hope you get the turnout

my issue is distance

Man I love the pea puffers, I wouldn't mind having 4 of them in a 5g haha. Just gotta make sure they're sexed properly due to aggression lol

Buy a cheap window and get it cut somewhere lol

Might have been neat to use the rocks as sort of a mountain face in order to build an upper "level". Have your HC growing at the base of the "mountain face" and plant something else at the top that will grow over the edge of the wall and drape down the face? Just an idea I thought of with those pretty rocks.

I believe Plakat is the term they use for short-finned Betta splendens or something like that. Like the halfmoon strain.

I think you have to pick out each of the plants very carefully and then transfer the plants again to the main tank. I know its a PITA, but thats the only way I see it. It will be very difficult to scoop out the gravel and the plants together and putting them down onto the main tank. Might be able to do it with one of those kitty litter scooper dealies.

Thats essentially how I've seen them propagate. none that I've ever seen have rhizomes per say or what I might consider to be rhizomes, but thats not to say im correct. But I do know that with all plants, removing all but a few inches of root seems to be the best means of stimulating growth upon re-planting

How do you overwinter those ponds?