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Does anyone have experience with this plant's reproduction/propagation? I've read that they send flower shoots to the surface and that they sometimes, up to 5 times in plants life, will produce new plants. I've had a couple of different looking leaves start for the surface but then do a leaf melt. Now I've one of those that is still shooting for the surface and the next leave to come out went up a shorter distance than most of the other leaves and instead of uncurling has curled even tighter and has what looks at the moment like three small bananas forming at the base of the leaf. Is this a new plant shoot?

Polishing shoes as well She's little short to be doing water changes so the shoes it is...I'm still trying to get Michael to give me Jade too...How short is to short? 5 year old hasn't let me pump the gravel siphon in couple months. Thought the 3 gallon pails full would be too much for her but I went to dump one last week turned around and she had followed me to washroom with the pail full of freshwater I had waiting to refill the tank. Almost no spillage from her room to to the washroom either. I've spilt as much from stepping into hall and a cat or two whiz zing by.In short slave labor worked for my dad it'll work for me :P

Ok diy co2 update and question of safety. Noticed my check valves were gumming up with crud and changed set up. System is now two 1l mixtures into a T then into seperator and out into another T leading to two seperate wood diffusers(AKA chopstick whittled and sanded). Now when left to their own for a few hours the CO2 is nice steady fine bubbles out of one of the diffusers. If given a little shake the co2 will come out of both diffusers. Both mixtures and seperator are stored above water line. Anyone see any explosive yeast mix or siphon issues? After the check valves sticking I knew I needed a seperator and thought this would be good way to cut them out altogether.

Doh thanks for pointing that out. Hadn't noticed as when I was looking I had few other things on list and was over that 250 mark

Same RO unit same price at pets and ponds as well http://www.petsandponds.com/en/aquarium-supplies/c238376/index.html

I noticed root growth on any visible root plants almost immediately. Java fern, amazon sword, wysteria and a scarlet temple plant I had to fix to tall rock to get adequate light to it. Definitely needing more plants in there but please no duckweed. Jokes aside tho wanting one more mid ground/ centrepiece plant(thinking an anubias) small ton of java moss and dwarf hair grass and some floaters. For now is a low light tank tho plan on buying a shelving unit and setting up a small rack with the 36 as a centrepiece with a 20 on each side of it and 5 10's on shelf above, and sump underneath. Contemplating a small aquaponics bed as sort of a prefilter to the sump and source of strawberries for kid's endless appetite throughout the winters. When I set the shelf up plan ATM is to use a 5 meter led strip/ shelf which would triple lighting the tank is getting now or more. Then I'll pretty much have to go pressurized but thought I'd give the yeast thing a try now to boost the plants in there. Learned the hard way I can't use liquid co2 substitute with invertebrates in the tank so this was next option. Missed deal of a lifetime on co2 kit out here just before Christmas but had to make sure everyone else got their presents. Milwaukee regulator and 5 lb tank for $40. No solenoid but I switch the light from daylight to lunar every night so adding turning tank off at night and back on in morning wouldn't have been a problem. By the time I knew everything was covered and I could spare the jingle it was sold.

Ok so I had been having nitrate issues in 36 bow front. First thought cut the feeding and deep vac. Helped but fish (6 varieties tetra) started picking on snails, shrimp and occasionally each other. Nitrates still rising from 20 ppm to 40-60 in two days. Took feedings up a hair to stop the violence and added few more plants; no significant change. Two weeks ago I added a DIY CO2 setup; two bottles setup 5 days apart, brewers yeast and raw sugar with wood diffusers(bamboo chopsticks) set up under filter return. Diffusers work great, maybe 1/15 bubbles is of a size that it approaches the current and it's gone by time current pushes it down/ across 5". Within days root production took off on wysteria and amazon sword. PH is still above 7.4 but plants seem to be taking in nitrates better as getting four days before nitrates climb above 40. I am assuming this is all normal and can't wait til March trip to calgary to pick up more plants.

Wow I kept three red bellies in a 30 g years ago and if it moved in their tank they ripped the fins off it and left it live to eat later. A process they often do the wild; leave immobilized prey alive and the school follows as it floats downstream. Didn't matter what went in fish, baby mice, if it moved they ripped the appendages off. Of course all they ever got was weekly feedings.

I am thinking of trying this myself until I can afford real pressure system. Have read my shrimps won't take the metricide nor the flame moss. Have lost all female Neo's and down to three males from total of 15. Couldn't figure it out before now know. Also noticed better growth in flame moss since I quit. The rest of the plants have slowed since stopping liquid so want real co2 and this seems like best option ATM.

I turn lights on this morning to watch a ghostie pull a baby pond snail out of it's shell. Predation or snails dying?

Unfortunately in Medicine Hat not calgary. Was unfamiliar with frogbit. Nice plant structure. Would be interested in some next time we get up there. Still want salvinia Natans as like its structure as well for floating plant.

Should be fine from what I can find. People build and reseal aquariums with fibreglass all the time. Just have to make sure is thoroughly cured so store bought screen should be. Just make sure it wasn't sprayed with mild inhibitors or anything like that.

Considered bamboo and know it's not very high light demand but lighting in room itself is almost zero. Daughter's bedroom with lights rarely on throughout the day.

Nice march 8th is a Sunday one of my days off. Count me in.

Did a massive deep gravel vacuum and slowed nitrate climb to get four to five days now. Think other part of the problem was me chopping down my wysteria to propagate; better long term but spiked an already imbalanced tank short term. Added the wood to have something to tie java to to help bring nitrates down. Been looking for salvinia Natans for a while and will definitely be interested if I can find some. Duckweed is 24d resistant isn't it.

Ooo ooo ooo March you say? Dang if I'm lucky it will fall on or near day of daughter's appointment up there. There's quite a few items that I see through this forum as readily available in Calgary that I know I will never see out here. To corner all of you in one building would be Christmas for me. Let's see work still owe me for 2 1/2 weeks vacation from 2014 and by march I'll have another 5 days racked up = honey you know that tank rack I've been talking about.....

As stated in another thread we have lost a snail over Chistmas. Purchased this little guy in August as part of cleanup crew for 36 gallon bow front. He quickly grew to the point where he could no longer fully tuck himself into his shell and would rest with approximately 1/4" of his body sticking out. Wasn't really an issue until I tried cutting back the food supply for tetras in tank in hopes of keeping nitrates down. When packing up to make day trip over Christmas I noticed one antennae was looking shorter than the other but never thought much of it. Upon returning home two nights later, one day feeding missed I saw his shell was empty and then saw a group of fish hovering over a spot in the tank darting down to gravel bed and back up but not moving away. Used net to scatter the crowd to find a small white carcass. Not much left of the poor little guy at that point but removed him and gave proper swirling burial. Thankfully it was the golden one and not Turbo the ivory that my girl likes to kiss on his foot through tank glass. Had hoped to replace over the weekend with "red onion" nerites I'd spotted at a LFS but they were all sold. Oh well. Anyone in Calgary have some Trumpet snails, or nerites that may be available in March? Also interested in rabbit snails but have a source for them although one stop shopping would be easier.

Ok little more time to research and I think I've found my answer. From what I can find it turns out is just plain ugly. It seems this is a common bacterial fungus that will disappear given time even without the ottos munching away on it and is not harmful whatsoever to tank inhabitants. Whew because like I said the ottos are really enjoying it even if the mystery snails and shrimp won't touch it. Caused by reaction of the bacteria in the tank to newly introduced organic materials. From what I can find the only reason I haven't had this before is because in past I used salvaged wood which I boiled the $h!t out of.

Thanks for the offer FCG. I may take you up on it as well. Been working at trying to get things in balance slowly but think I've overstocked the critters for plants in tank right now. To me it is looking crowded not so much because of too many critters but more not enough plants/hiding spots for the ones that are in there. I've been trying to hold off buying much out here in the Hat as selection is limited and quality is not greatest. I'll be back in Calgary again in March but needed to do something with nitrates going from 10ppm after a WC to between 30 and 40 ppm in two days. I don't mind up to a 20% WC once a week but having to do that every 2 days is sign tank is not balanced to me. It is and like most always will be a work in progress. I've never seen this white algae/moss stuff before but have never put store bought driftwood in a tank before. Have used real driftwood collected from river and boiled the heck out of it to remove tannins and sterilize. Was a little surprised after attaching java and putting it in tank that it wanted to float. Any I had collected was stuff that had waterlogged and been exposed by low water line so did not expect store bought for aquarium trade to not be same. Wouldn't have been surprised at neutral buoyancy but this shot to surface so hard and fast i have hard time believing it had ever seen water.

Ok still having issues with nitrate levels creeping up faster than I like even after cutting feedings in half in 36 gallon tank. This is a tetra tank mainly and apparently the half rations were not enough as they killed a snail that was growing too fast for its shell to keep up when tried to skip feeding for one day. Poor little apple snail couldn't pull himself fully into his shell, always left 1/4 inch or so sticking out when he rested. Anyway I went out this weekend and purchased a couple more plants. Picked up some mondo grass (have since researched the error of that purchase) and a small but rhizome loaded java fern at a LFS. I know no one likes buying plants from these places but not a lot of options out here. Because the java was so loaded with rhizomes I decided to pick up a piece of driftwood as well and separate the fern to cover the foot long driftwood. Tied leaves that were covered in zomes to the wood as well as the main rhizome. Had to also tie weights to it to keep it from floating. When I came home from work last night I noticed parts of the wood had a white algae/moss like bloom forming on it. Left it alone to see what happened. Tonight, 48 hours+/- later, the growth is still there. It doesn't seem to have grown or if it did not much. The ghost shrimp and snails I still have in the tank don't seem at all interested in this stuff although the Otto cats are. Should I be worried about this white stuff or just leave it and see if ottos can keep it in check? At the moment this is a low light tank with no CO2 system at all; just dosing API liquid CO2 every other morning. The java seems to have recovered the shock of transplant and is already showing signs of new growth.

Have never used prime or had "fancy" bettas but I once purchased a trio of crown tails and kept them in a 20 gallon Rubbermaid storage tote with zero filtration. All they ever got was weekly water changes. They not only survived in this aquatic mess but lived for two years like that and even spawned for once. Once the fry hatched dad promptly ate all but this was all an experiment to begin with. The standard betta is an extremely tough little fish which originates from one of the worlds filthiest waterways the yellow river. They don't really like much current and have little problem with oxygen levels that would kill most fish because they do go to the surface and breath air. Watching him build his bubble nest and attempt to entice the girls in was amusing. I wound up having to give them away as I wound up out working on the road 26-28 days out of a month and decided rather than pay rent on a place i was never at it would be cheaper to just put everything in storage and rent hotel room for the 2-4 days a month I had off.

I had it pictured as a single line from sump up to top level and then splitting off into the five 10g tanks with valves controlling flow rate into these tanks. All five top level tanks will each have an overflow into the 36g. The 36g will then have a single overflow out of it which T's off to drain into the 10's on each side of it. Each of these would then drain down to the sump. Finding an adjustable flow pump with capability to lift the 6 feet won't be an issue as I looked into pumps when contemplating turning my hillside I call a back yard/garden into an aquaponics garden. That is still a project I want to attempt but have a tree to remove before I bother setting anything up but while looking into it that was one of the biggest road blocks as would need pump that could lift at least 10'-12' and still provide adequate flow. Found several that can do it.

The original thought of 2x4 construction was for the dimensions and aesthetics. Fischer that is a beautiful set of corner units and I'm certain a straight rectangular rack will be much easier to build and overcome support issues. That being said Jason has made me rethink store bought. Having looked into it a bit Home Depot has a 60" shelving unit that would work nicely and leave a little room for supplies etc. They also have a 72" unit currently on sale for less than the 60". Both have a 2000lb/shelf rating. The biggest problem I see is the 72 has enough space and capacity for 11 10g tanks plus the 36 bow front. Now you're thinking more tanks? What's the problem with that? One; it's going to be uphill battle with wife over original plan(minor problem as daughter will be my trump card) and two; 40 more gallons up top means bigger sump needed. I like the idea of using large heavy duty storage container for sump as it is very affordable solution. Leaning toward purchasing the 60"x24"x78" unit even if it is $10 more because it fits the need better and removes temptation to expand beyond sump capabilities. So now my big question is will the overflow/siphon work with the height difference between the 36g and the 10g standards? 7" difference between high water lines. I think it should; just a matter of how deep the siphon is in higher tank but correct me if wrong. I know I can increase that difference by placing 36g on a platform but would rather not if not needed.

I've got bitten big by MTS. Now four months after setting up 36g planted community tank and 10g neocaridina shrimp tank I'm thinking of setting up a multiple tank stand/rack with sump. I've got it in my head to build a two tier stand with 5 ten gallon tanks on top tier and the 36 bow front with a ten gallon on each side on middle tier with a 50 gallon heavy duty Rubbermaid storage containers or sump/filter hidden underneath. To accommodate this the unit would need to be 52"L x 24" wide. This length and width leaves a little extra room between tanks and allows for plumbing at back of tanks to remain within dimensions of the unit. My question is will 2x4 lumber be enough to hold the weight. I think it should work with enough cross-bracing on shelves but if I'm setting up a disaster please tell me. Second concern is if 36 bow front is 19" bottom to top and 10gallon tanks beside it are 12" bottom to top is this enough difference to create an overflow system? The thought is the sump will fill top tier which overflows to 36G which in turn overflows to the 10G's beside it and finally back into the sump/filter. Additional filtering will be added to each tank in the form of lift tube sponge filters.