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Anyone have experience in cloning swords? I have a couple swords that are amazing id like to share but dont know how to trim and clone. One is a gorgeous red sword and I dont want to end up killing it. Anyone able to point me in the right direction?

Anyone have experience in cloning swords? I have a couple swords that are amazing id like to share but dont know how to trim and clone. One is a gorgeous red sword and I dont want to end up killing it. Anyone able to point me in the right direction?

Been busy working out of town lately here. The tank is over a year old. I do 50% water changes weekly. I keep co2 around the 30 ppm according to the drop checker. The tank is around the 24" mark off the top of my head. So I really dont know what I can do here. Hope it balances itself out while Im out of town working here. I hate seeing algae in one and crystal clear in the other tank...

Thanks guys. Yeah I do like the figure eights. we were looking at them a few months back but didnt get them because I was more into a planted community tank at the time. I dont have any shortage of java ferns, java moss of annubias so thats a plus. I love the look and Idea of mangroves. So where would one find mangroves?

I was just given a tank from a coworker and the better half has been interested in keeping puffers for a while. Im just not so into cleaning algae. I try to keep all of our tanks relatively low maintenence. EI dosing has been pushing her fish chore thresh hold as I work out of town alot... Any ideas for keeping a low maintenence puffer tank? some plants that might be tolerant of brackish water? A bit of a shot in the dark but if anyone knows itll probably be someone here..

Well, Ive been coming down with an algae issue. I have brown algae that keeps forming on the glass in my tank. Im currently Ei dosing have co2 in the green and am running 2 36" t5ho's at a total of 78 watts @ 1000k. This kind of came on after removing my pleco and starting EI. Its heavily planted with swords, vals, annubias, rotala, ludwigia, java fern and java moss, and a couple in there I cant remember.. All of my plants are growing like wildfire now, You can see a steady stream of bubbles coming off a lot of them. From what Ive been reading Im starting to think that I have to increase my lighting or scale back on ferts Im definately leaning towards the addition of more lighting as I am waiting for some plants growing emmersed to try adding a carpet.. So with the addition of more light should I be able to beat the brown? Scale back ferts for now? Also, should I be mixing 6500k and 10000K ? Thanks guys

If youre going to have all of this intense lighting, make sure you have your ferts non limiting or you will certainly get algae in no time. EI dose and plant heavy!

yeah quick grow in calgary is pretty good to deal with. They have t5hos with bulbs and ballasts and reflectors for under the price of a single bulb in red deer. They even had they same stuff at riverfront, but riverfront charged you for the reflector where quickgrow gave it for free. Also they ususally come with 6500K bulbs, and said they would open the package and swap for a 10000K .

To get your levels to the desired ppm you will have to dose to the total water volume as your dry ferts will dissolve into all the water. The point of Ei dosing is to have your ferts non limiting. I was running flourish products before and just started dosing dry ferts a little over two weeks ago. The growth that I have gotten since has made me a firm believer. Had a tank that was geting a lot of algae, start having the algae dissapear and growth take right off. My advice; dose hard.

Use one of the hose systems when willing helps a lot. I had the same issue when I first got my flourite. I used buckets to fill my tank and it stirred everything up. Once I got the hose set up I had no problems. Aslo Itheres a chemical, I beleive its made by seachem called clarify. Its a polyflocculant that binds all the tiny lttle bits that are suspended. Using this in conjunction with a sponge filter of filter fiber will clear it up in no time. The first time I used flourite I couldnt see the back of my thirty gallon and within a few hours it was almost clear..

Thanks jay. I had come across a similar chart until someone had told me its not very accurate do to phosphates skewing readings. But I guess a rough idea is a little safer than choking the roselines.... So, I just checked ph and kh and Im in the green, a little to the high end but not too bad for just feeling it out I guess. Thanks man. I just got a drop checker the other day too. Have been meaning to whip up a 4dkh solution to keep an eye on it. And as for gas exchange, I keep a spray bar angled up agitating the surface, but not breaking water tension. Next tank will definatley be outfitted a little more equipped. Skimmer, sump, undergravel returns, and a much better job hardscaping. Done DSM as well too.

Well finally got my poop in a group and made a trip to calgary to get my dry ferts together to get EI dosing. What a difference. After just five days, I'm seeing noticeable growth in my plants, and can actually watch oxygen bubbles coming off of my plants. And plants that were starting to be plagued with algae, are sprouting green growth free of agae. Hopefully got this balanced out now. At first, all of the additional gas in the system made me think I had jacked the co2 too much, but the roseline sharks seemed to be fine and no one else seemed in distress. The roselines are usually my first indicator for co2 levels. In my tank I get a light protein film from feeding shrimp, and it seems to keep gasses from breaking out to the surface. I was kind of wanting to remedy this with lily pipes, But this might work in my benefit. Keeping oxygen in long enough to fully dissolve, and not letting c02 gass off. As well, I dosed hard the first day and followed up with a 50% water just to get levels up(and was due for a change). Immediately following, I had my apistogramma caucatouides looking like they are spawing. Formed up a couple pairs and established little territories that they are defending now. Was a cute lil show they put on that night. The female presenting REAL hard, slinking around and rubbing up on the male and trying to lure him over to her flower pot.

Well they did it again. Got some more fry swimming around. And we still have two juvenile from the last batch around there as well too. Have them in there with some platys and baby platys, two pea puffers, and a couple juvenile bristlenose plecos. These fish have quickly learned to keep their distance. So hopefully we'll have a better survival rate this time.

They look good, Fissidens will readily attatch to them. Tons of room for biological bacteria. Go for it!

Id give some melafix a try. Its a treatment extracted from tea trees. Its relatively inexpensive. And Ive heard good things about it from my neighbour. And treated a fish that had pop eye with it. Pop eye was gone after a day.