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Possibly, but unlikely, normal super glue is really runny and can cover the rhizome if sloppy. The gel, is easier to control where it goes.

Here is an article we have on it. Anubias Rot: Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions WWW.AQUARIUMCOOP.COM Anubias rot is an uncommon disease that can affect anubias plants in the aquarium hobby. Unfortunately, there is very little information about how it starts and how to stop its spread. In this article, let's talk about the common...

Definitely people have stopped by. The property was in really bad shape a few years ago. The person we bought it from got it back into shape mostly and we are continuing on that. As for car I containers, there are some other homes in the neighborhood that have them. Lots of RV parking/garages and that type of stuff on peoples property because we are out of the way a bit and it’s commonplace compared to living in the city. Everyone does a good job of planting trees or privacy fences around the cargo containers to dress them up.

Looking good! I hope people find them as useful as we do.

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I plan to bury Hank at our new place with the maple tree we are moving. Thanks for joining us.

What plants are you trying to grow?

Its the same size, in the future, contacting customer service would be best here as we won't always see a post like this.

All pallets, goal being to move stuff in and out with the forklift.

Another day wrapped up. Got some siding up on one of the new walls and two of the cargo containers were delivered.

the gh is may be a bit low, but in general cichlids are hardy and i've never seen it really matter. You've had success with them for years, I don't think today your water is that different than a few months ago. It hasn't been a problem and therefore I doubt it is the actual root cause. Typically when water parameters are a problem you see the problem in all the fish, not just one.

With the extra pictures these look like wild type guppies to me. In the pictures you can see lots of stress, definitely some bacterial infections. I would put a large amount of money ammonia is in the water and currently the problem. If I owned this aquarium, and didn't have access to an ammonia test kit for a few days. I would change like 80% of the water and put 1 tablespoon of salt per gallon to fix this. I'd likely lose another 20% of the guppies are some are in really bad shape but then see them recover as I can keep the ammonia away. The symptoms they are showing are from either ammonia or ph burn in my experience, we have your pH reading. This is why I think it's an ammonia issue.

Old age? Aggression between fish? Both can happen in an African Cichlid tank.

I'm attempting to make the most helpful/commonly asked question videos we have done easy to access. I have located this video playlist towards the bottom of the main forum page. If you find any particularly helpful videos you want to link often, let me know and I'll put it there so that we can a library that's easy to grab from and post in threads to help people. We have to start the video, click the title, to open a new page to grab the url to share in a thread unless someone finds an easier/faster way.

If I recall correctly, we still pack an aquarium co-op sticker with those that are going up to Canada. Something the USA doesn't get 😉 p.s. Happy Birthday

Congrats on your first year and no saltwater 😛

I'd say it could be a fish was eating some of the plant. Also know that different lights will produce different leaf size. With the rule of thumb being more light, smaller leaf size in general. Deficiencies can play a part into stunted leaves as well.

I'm not sure there is any science on it. For me personally it's 6 months from the last time I did a major change, that might be setting up the tank, changing a filter for a different one, swapping substrate, or adding fish/plants. Basically when all I've been doing is feeding and maintaining water quality for 6 months, the routine is set in and the tank now starts to show what its going to do long term.

Yes, as a filter collects more debri, it traps finer particles, until it eventually clogs.

For me it’s simple, almost no one runs into ammonia problems where their filters can’t handle it because of not enough bacteria. A well established tank won’t have bacteria problems because most bacteria is on substrate, decorations, glass etc. How much bacteria the filter can hold is kind of irrelevant for most. However as you can see in this thread maintenance is a thing for everyone. Coarse sponges don’t clog easily meaning they can hold more debris. However a fine sponge can capture fine debris but clogs and is hard to get clean. While the posters here are the more hardcore of the hobby, the average aquarist does nothing to their aquarium until there are problems. Often many months between noticing their water quality is going downward. A coarse sponge filter helps them much more than a fine would. When I design products, I focus on the majority. No product will be the perfect fit for everyone. I would also say keep in mind the source of info, it can have a bias. I don’t pay people to sell my products, this if they say a fine filter is better they will get paid via amazon affiliate or other brand partnership. I’m not saying this went on here, but keep a perspective as a buyer. Even my bias is towards a product I profit from and designed. Understandably so, I think everyone can see I have something to gain from my sponge filter vs competitors. it is smart to get feedback from other buyers like this to get close to an unbiased set of information as possible.

I totally get the low maintenance, Murphy's tank and my 800g, no soil of any kind, no root tabs, just normal inert coarse sand, sustains great growth on fish poop alone. I've done that a bunch with aquarium gravel tanks as well, as mulm builds you, you're making natural "soil" essentially.

No worries, most rules are broken unintentionally 😉

If they are eating well, I'd give em a few more days to put some bulk on. Then at some point run just the paracleanse to do some deworming. They would have gotten at least 1 treatment of that while at the shop. So it's unlikely there are many alive currently, but the second treatment after a couple weeks is recommended to get any that were only eggs when we treated.

The plastic plant pots work as intake screens for overflows and such. I hadn't tried to think up anything for the plant bags yet. Soon the liners for plants will be shipping we designed them to be reusable, and when we run out of version 1, version 2 is AWESOME and will be used even more for frozen foods form the LFS, bringing fish home etc.

Is there a reason you don't just do aquarium gravel The plants you have are easy to grow and would thrive and you wouldn't run into the problem of uprooting aquasoil when you want to trim and move plants like you are now with the dirt.