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    the two that I have look just the same, the "bulb" is just resting on the surface and the roots extend down into the substrate. At first I kept trying to get the bulbous part down in the substrate more, but it kept coming out and then I heard that they don't like being moved, so I have left them alone now for a few months and are doing good.
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    I agree with others, unless your betta is a wild one that needs soft water, I'd use tap. I keep all my fish in my tap water and only start using RO or doing anything to the parameters unless I'm trying to get them to breed.
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    I would stay away from convicts unless you want to basically give them away the babies. When they come to a club meeting because someone has bred them, they either sell for a $1 for a bag of 6-10 or have to just give them away. In a 20 gallon, you could focus on a nice strain of guppies, one of the strains of rice fish, or white clouds and, with all three of those fish you could have cherry shrimp going in there as well.
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    I would try to stay away from feeder fish as much as possible, not only can the fish possibly spread pathogens to your fish, but a diet of only feeders is not healthy for them. I have never came across an oscar that I could not get to eat pellets or flake foods. I would get them eating a couple good quality pellets or flake foods and give frozen foods as well, they'll go after mysis shrimp, bloodworms, etc. If you want to feed them some live foods occasionally, I would get myself some guppies or endlers and set up a tank, can be a 10 gallon with some plants and let them go to town in there, and just catch some out when you want to feed the fish.
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    There was a things years ago that was like a large canister filter that you could gravel vac and it would pump the clean water back to tanks, I remember it being on a cart, I think it was geared towards aquarium service companies. Does any else remember this from like the later 80s or early 90s? There was also a product that was like the tube for a gravel vac, had a small battery operated motor and a fine filter bag attached, you would vac your gravel, the water would go through the media filter bag and it would catch all the dirt and mulm with no hoses running out of the tank.
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    I have six wild caught leopoldi angels, I've had them for about a year and half. I don't find them much different than scalare and altums which I have kept both before, the only thing i see is they seem more skittish, spooked easily. I keep them in my regular tap water which is from a well, pH 7.4-7.8 and temp is right about 78. I know @Danielkeeps them and has even bred them, so hopefully he'll chime in here as well. I am hoping to try and work with them this winter to try to get them to spawn. Good Luck!
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    Thanks for the heads up Dean! I've been waiting for these to come in before I placed an order for the brine shrimp hatcher so I didn't have to make two orders.
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    Here's Charlie, my Bernese Mountain dog.
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    I'm going to have to be sure to add some of the new stickers onto my upcoming order from the coop
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    Great looking setup you have going there, I like the name Crustacean Station. Your friend is pretty clever coming up with that!
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    Nice little bowl there! I have collected a few bowls and large vases that I've thought of planting but haven't gotten to it. This has given some inspiration though.
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    When I was a teen and had fish tanks in my bedroom, right outside my window was our garden. I would run my python hose out the window and water the garden, and we always had tons of veggies that my mom would freeze or can. Now, my fish room is in my basement and it would be a lot more work to get the fish tank water out to the garden, also being the garden is quite a ways away, so I don't use it, although indirectly it does benefit my lawn as it gets pumped into my septic tank.
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    Depending on thickness, size etc, most of the time they are about $6-10 for 100 bags. Sometime you can get rubber bands with them, but I just pick up a bag of rubber bands at Walmart or someplace that sells office supplies.
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    Most of the tank bred strains such as cacatuoides and agassizzi will breed in water 7.4 and even higher pH. They have been bred in captivity for enough generations that they have acclimated to the higher pH water.
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    For me it depends on where i got the fish from. When I get from a local hobbyist or certain LFS I just put the fish in the quarantine tank and observe for a few days, then I treat if I notice any problems. If I get fish shipped in and have been in transit for a couple days, I observe and treat if needed. If I import fish in from other countries, whether wild caught or not, I acclimate and treat with med trio. I treat for a week, do water change, and treat again. If they're wild caught I always deworm as well.
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    Looks good, sometimes all it takes is a bunch of elbow grease!
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    I sell locally mainly smaller fish, shrimp and plants. The sizes I keep on hand are 4x16 and 6x18 or something around that, always 4" and 6", lengths sometimes vary depending on who I get them from. The usually just get 2mil thick ones, but if I am shipping anything spiny, such as corydoras or plecos I will double bag them. If you know that you will be shipping a bunch of spiny fish, there are thicker bags available. I usually buy them in packs of 100 off Aquabid or eBay.
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    I saw this on Facebook last winter and showed it to my wife, telling her this is the floor plan for our house we're planning to build in a year. She wasn't impressed LOL
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    I'm not sure about Bay leaves. Botanicals I have used for shrimp tanks are alder cones, indian almond leaves, oak leaves, mulberry leaves and guava leaves. All except the oak leaves I have bought online from various vendors, the oak leaves I collect in my woods every fall. If you want to collect your own oak leaves make sure to collect away from anywhere that any pesticides are being sprayed, and let the leaves turn brown on the branch naturally. I then boil them for a couple minutes and put in tanks.
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    Java moss, Java fern, any of the Anubius species.
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    You say your fish love the tap water, are you using a mix of the softened water and the water you tap off before the sprinkler? I think what I would do from the sound of what you have going on, depending on how many and what size tanks you have, I'd invest in a couple plastic food grade 55 gallon drums. Set them up in garage and run the water pre softener or however you mix right now into the drums, put a heater in them to bring them to temp, and use something like a mag-drive pump or one of the newer DC power pumps to pump water to the tanks. If you do some researching, especially on saltwater keeping sites, you can find some ideas you may be able to implement, as saltwater guys usually have storage for RO, and mixed saltwater and a way to pump to their tanks. Good luck!
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    My go to for planted tanks is a 50/50 mix of eco-complete and fluval stratum. you could even do a mix of this and cap it with some sand if you desire, a black blasting sand would blend right in.
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    He also has his ponds in an enclosure type thing so they have insulative properties around the outside and puts polycarbonate sheets over the top to help hold in the heat. IMO the polycarbonate sheets probably help the most with the sun beating down on, the area between the plastic sheet and water surface is like a greenhouse. I am not sure if the OP has their pond in ground or just sitting above, but if its not in ground, I would find some way to insulate around the sides to help with heat retention.
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    First off....Happy Birthday! That tank would be perfect for either species you mentioned. If you're wanting to do some breeding, then go for an Apisto species, and you can have some small tetras or rasboras something swimming in the mid and upper levels of the tank. Good luck and be sure to show off whatever you decide to do.
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    Some hard water deposits are next to impossible to remove, you've done all I can think of other trying a product like Bar Keepers friend or CLR. Both of them are pretty harsh, so make sure to rinse the tank out well if you do use them. I have seen both of them used by people for this with some success.
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