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    I would recommend spinning out the hair algae with chopsticks. It won’t hurt anything. I don’t keep your fish, but maybe you can find something hungry and compatible. I reduced window light with blackout curtains, and added SAEs.
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    Dwarf sag spreads well in a good soil. I chose two crypts for my oldest-tank reboot.
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    @HydraSlayer, you may have posted an http image link, which won’t work on this https site. Just edit your first post and upload the image.
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    I tried planting with my tongs by dragging the roots in like boat anchors and then opening the tongs and pulling away to the side. I decided to plant the full clumps and not split them up. I still need more plants!
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    Growing up in Vermont gave me so much appreciation for Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains. Visiting Massachusetts and Maine each summer gave me a love of tide pools.
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    I think running organic soil helps with my stability. There is so much digestion and processing happening in the soil, plus all the live plants.
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    New plants came today. With the Co-Op notification, I used my lunch break to bring them inside: I also found out that I have Malaysian Trumpet Snails in my Askoll 20, after finding them at the top of the bucket from removing sand. I threw them back in, and added water to save more. Later, I took it to the next level: I rescued about twenty more MTS from the sand that I removed. I used my sifters to separate by size, and looked through what I found. Then I put the sand in the small bucket, dumped my sorted gravel into the big bucket, inverted the sifters, and ran some water through. Tomorrow, I will check for more snails.
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    Don’t bury the rhizome!
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    Photos please!
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    @anewbie, I am over jungle val. I feel like it tries to out-compete my other plants.
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    I tried to buy a used 12 gallon long tank a couple of years ago. Surprise! It broke in shipment. Instead of a refund, I took an Apex leak detection kit, and a lunar simulator module. It tracks the moon cycle for your location and has white LEDs on a string. It is designed for reef tanks, but I don’t know the details. I couldn’t deal with it in my bedroom, but I moved my Apex downstairs, so I might try it again for fun.
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    I added water to the 20H.
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    @GameCzar, I would visit friends and cousins with those early game systems. I feel really lucky to have lived thru the acceleration of the internet and the web. I remember asking for an Ethernet connection for my dorm room in 1993 at CU Boulder, which got me a job. At some point, I got a DSL connection and played Quake 3 Arena on a PowerTower Pro 225 with a 3gfx video card, running Mac OS 9. We actually got really good ping and fps in those days. I played the Xbox port, and it was glorious!
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    I prefer gravel to sand for planted tanks, with organic soil.
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    You can drop in plants with a pot to stage, but I would plant without. You want full root spread when you decide to plant.
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    I want to try the new dual air pumps when they come back in stock.
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    My folks wouldn’t buy me a video game system, but they did buy me a Macintosh SE/30. Almost all of my career has been based on being an Apple expert. Now I also do Google and various network technologies. However, my first purchase with a dishwashing paycheck was a Super Nintendo. I had a PS2, but I have been on Xbox since Halo and Splinter Cell. I finally got a Series X!
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    I was also joking, for the record!
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    @Torrey, there is some moss on the wood. I would like to try some that is more compact, and doesn’t Velcro with floating plants. @eatyourpeas, tempting!
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    @eatyourpeas, your tanks have more drama than a BBC series.
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    I am about to test a medium sponge pre-filter with the Aquarium Co-Op power head. This is a learning thread for aquarists helping turtles:
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