Expectorating_Aubergine

Perfect for a demasonii and about 500 guppies!

Depends on temps and how much food they're getting.

I say name it 'Winchester'. That way you can call it your Winchester mystery snail

In my experience, both pea puffers AND gouramis will eat guppy fry in they are small enough....

Somwtimes the big box stores carry them but your best bet is a place that is more independent and leans more into the whole vegetables vibe. There are many varieties of dwarf banana. The ones I did indoors was called a dwarf blue java banana.

It's a crap shoot with terrestrial moss. I've had pretty good success so far though. Doesn't look like it does terrestrially though. I believe what I have is a kind of dicranum or "mood moss" as it's called in the reptile trade. It grows tight and pillowy when terrestrial.

Try a dwarf banana. Those things eat nitrates (and just about everything that's not a fish) up like hot cakes! Nice roots too....

I have tried this plant a handful of times. I've tried several versions of submerged and some emersed. It always died.... except for one. That one turned completely green and stayed that way. If this is some kind of variegation, it's probably a combo of super unstable and propagated from achloroplastic tissue...

Can't go wrong with some Doug Adams!

Buce are just suuuuuuuuper slow. They take forever. Even emersed, they are slow growers. Give them 4× the amount of time you would give anubias, to show signs of growth. That's part of the reason I try and stay away from it (the other one is price). I've only had it do well in terrariums, and that was only after everything overtook it and I forgot it was even there. Buce is the three things you don't want a plant to be; beautiful, slow growing and expensive 😞

Sounds like you're doing a good thing. Goodluck with them 👍

I think most aquarium plants prefer cooler temps. Especially ones from more temperate climates. Aeration is good for all plants. The thing you have to remember is that with plants there is always a limiting factor to growth. A big one for aquatic plants, I think, is access to C02. There is so much of it in atmospheric air compared to water. Many slow growing aquatic plants (well, marginal/amphibious), will grow like gangbusters emersed for this reason.

I don't know why it's not letting me type after the quote..... I live in California, and that's the law here. Not sure about the rest of the country

I'm pretty sure it's illegal to sell baby turtles is they're 4"or under, unless they are for educational purposes....

That's really cool! If you gravel vac while you have the scope, you should check out what's living in the mulm!

I don't use active substrate, but I have used pothos rooted in tanks. It can and it will out compete water colum feeders. If the roots make it to the substrate then it will outcompete root feeders too. Some of the factors that I have found to have an effect on the pothos are light levels, ambient temps and the fish themselves. If they don't get high light, they won't grow very fast or very big. So they'll be pulling less nutrients out of the water. Same for ambient temps/humidity. Cold &dry= slower smaller growth VS warm& humid= faster bigger growth. Some fish like to eat the roots too. The plants themselves have calcium oxalate crystals in their tissues for self defense. I know some people worry about that hurting their fish. Still, some eat at the roots. When that happens, it also hinders their ability to pull nutrients. Mine had high light, temps and humidity. They grew like crazy and eventually got nutrient deficiencies. This was resolved when I started using miracle grow in the tank (not a ton, it was a 125gal).

In captivity, yeah. Lots of animals will hybridize in captivity (like ligers)

Barclaya longifolia. It's red, it's bush-like, it's easy and it's only 5 bucks @ buceplants!

You could: 1. Take a drill bit that's made for masonry/ceramic/rock and drill bigger holes in it. You can plant stuff in the holes or leave them open. 2. Carve the rocks with a dremel that has the bit for it. You can make deep fake "cracks" and plant stuff in those cracks. Maybe create Easter island heads? 3. Make a large holes in each one and plant bigger plants with soil and lava gravel cap?

The thing that always strikes me about the whole anti hybrid sentiment- is how do you know you're getting pure animals to start with? Lots of species are indistinguishable. We read about it all the time. Species A was actually a complex of 3 species that look almost identical (this happened with giraffes). Same with locality data. I know they are real stickers about that in europe, not so much here. The again it depends on what community you're in. I know tarantula people damn near lynch people for hybridising intentionally. Boa constrictor people, not so much....

Spotted Congo puffer

We have one. They are stoopid expensive, and they're fish look like Gary Busey on a bad day. Don't get me wrong, they get cool stuff (baby electric eels once). I never buy anything from there. My youngest likes to go and see the big fish. I like to ask about the illegal fish they seem to regularly have (like the snake heads we saw last time we were there).

I've bred bettas outside before. I had HUNDREDS of bettas at the end of the season. Be sure you have a plan for the fish you're going to produce. Even if that plan is a hungry turtle. Tub responsibly my friends 👍

Unless the plants need lots of water movement, it should be pretty easy. If you're doing subwassertang and moss it should be dead easy. I have a few jars with plants myself. They are nice to have in spaces where you can't have a full on aquarium (like work). Don't be afraid of tall, oddly shaped or jar that you can't get you hand in. I actually add a bit of fert and occasionally throw in an airstone.