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Just diatoms? Probably just a bloom it always goes away. Buy a few more ottos or wait it out. You clean your filter lately? Haha I forgot to clean mine for a couple months and DAYAM it was pretty brutal I found the source of my algae problem

Yea my MTS completely ripped up my whole HC carpet along with my cories. Ah wll. I just planted crypt parva instead and it looks awesome

You can always also plant the plants in clay pots if its a bigger tank to stop them from being dub up. Take clay pot, put in about 2/3 of the way with your choice of substrate then fill the rest with large heavier pebbles from ikea or somewhere else (ikea is 2$ for a huge bag) and then bury within your rock formation/substrate/etc until the clay pot isnt visible. Make sure to not only root your plant at the bottom but get them stem at least an inch into the substrate layer of the pot if you can so even if they go smacking into the stem it shouldnt rip it up

Beautiful. It's not too hard to make a tank like that on a smaller scale but to keep it that laid out without having patches of nothing here and there on a 165 is excellent

Bacopa works very well no acclimation required. Mine grow up and out of my tank towards windows

Also can bleach dip 1:19 bleach:water ratio, about 15 seconds with the leaves submerged (dont put the rhizome in it) then just give it a nice rinse for a minute or two in a bowl under the tap and throw it into a dark corner of the tank or a bucket of water out of light

Strange, I have mine in my shrimp tank with 100+ shrimps and they are constantly grazing on them with no discernible negative effects. Also have one in my high tech EI dosed super high light display tank and they don't really change much there either. They're not really even a plant per se, they're just a huge clump of cladophora algae that grows as a ball. Little fleck can break off and start growing on substrate and hardscape and be kind of annoying

plantedtank.net is by far the best out of all the ones I've seen.

Oh man why did I not know about this before. Thanks all

Didn't know it was there. Is that a B&M store? I may be going to calgary in a few weeks and would definitely pick up a few bags if they had it. Do they have the aquasoil new type and not 1/2, both of those have too many issues for me and aren't worth the money and trouble

I've been hounding the internet for quite a while looking for somewhere to ship aquasoil to edmonton here. I figure if I find a place, even though shipping will be pretty steep, there's im sure lots of people who would want to order it and shipping a larger amount wouldn't be too bad if we did a group order but I can't find anywhere to ship it here... I know somewhere in vancouver sells it but I'm not sure where and don't know if they'd ship it to edmonton

And lots of cories if it's like last time >.<

I second aquarium central. Nature's corner I find is overpriced compared to aquarium central, I've never found a fish cheaper at NC than at AC and plants are comparable or at least usually a buck or so cheaper for the nice tropica stuff at AC.

THIS IS AMAZING lol Influence I'm so useless I keep forgetting to call you to come north to grab some moss. On the other hand though I now have exorbitant amounts of weeping moss to give you >.<

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Filter floss is a must. Take a 40% off coupon to michaels and buy the polyfil bag it's 8$ normally so itll run you about 5$. I usually keep at least 3" of semi-packed polyfil in my eheim 2217 at all times right before the output hose. Every month or so (less if I did a lot of fussing about that month) I take the bottom half and throw it away cause it's the most dirty and then add in new stuff for the top half. Massive change for barely no money.

Wondering if theres ever any good news for edmonton

Oh wow, never seen these before. Definitely gonna bug tuan to get some in

Hmmm you guys are making me wants some of these snails.. I might have to go take a trip to AC

Lol Mickey. Cute. Guess i better accrue some pics of my tanks and get em up

Whoa you bought 42 snails lol thats why they all just dissapeared. AC got some cool stuff in recently. I'm wishing I had another tank set up to spend more monz there

I threw a UV sterilizer in my tank cause the water was kinda... murky-ish even after running about 5" of filter floss. Within 36 hours you couldn't even tell there was water in the tank

The buffering ability of the fluval substrate will be gone after about 2 months but ADA will last until its life in your tank is done. Planting HC in fluval stratum is frickin frustrating I'm just finally starting to get it to hold on my tank and I had to pour a bunch of eco on top of the stratum to help keep it down

IV pump?!?! Wow haha that's quite involved :P Do you have a separate one for trace? I thought trace and N/P/K shouldn't be mixed together in one solution. Looks like it'll go well. I'd break up the big HC clumps into 2-4 plantlet chunks and plant those I usually get at least double the spreading speed that way

Cool, just about 10 min drive from me that'll work perfectly