Shmaty

I have a lot of plants growing out of my tank and historically I test 0 across the board for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. My aquarium plants stay small, while the emergent plants suck up all the nutrients. That's why I was considering this as an alternative way to add natural ferts into it. I definitely understand garden≠aquarium. I want to test it in a small batch. See what happens. I only have one aquarium and it's 180G so it should allow me to buffer any spikes very easily. I just wanted to see what Volcano's experience was.

Wanted to bump this. I was just wondering about this as an idea and upon googling if people did this, I found this feed. Have you had any success with this? I found a "recipe" for how to convert their poop into a powder and then place that in a capsule. I am curious why not just bury it, as-is? I definitely agree with the whole taking the freely dropped ones and not those found within the litter box. The urine is potent. Any further thoughts? Curious the implications of long term use. I also don't know that I would consider this off topic. Seems this would be more suited for the plant section or the experiment section. Just my opinion. I use the bunny compost in my garden regularly. Their hay, bedding, and poop make a wonderfully rich compost.

I'd wager someone created those subtitles rather purposefully. The auto generated ones are legit. Googling pancrab is...interesting. Curious what the story here is. *put on my tin hat* To go further, it says it was posted 30 minutes ago, yet has comments from a year ago. Seems someone is trolling the old man!

Yeah her normal hiding spot isn't going to move, so picking her up with it, is a no go. haha I think I will employ the trap idea. Never seen anything like that. I like the idea of the tunnel trap too. Will have to see if one fits in her normal area. Originally we caught her with a net when moving houses but she's in a 180now and it would probably be a circus trying to chase her into a corner. Thanks all. Also love the Pokémon stuff!

I have an adult bristlenoose pleco that I want to relocate. Any thoughts how to catch her? The only method i'm aware of, is to lure her into a bottle overnight. Unfortunately, I recall people talking about the oxygen content inside said bottle becoming depleted and people loosing their fish. Does anyone have any experience using any other method? She's pretty enigmatic.

Forgive my ignorance, I dont recognize those tubes with the bubbles. What are those? What's their purpose? Also, Welcome! *wave*

My neighbor and I, have an unspoken garden rivalry. Haha Fushias are probably my favorite flower. Sadly they don't do well in my summer heat. Before this, we lived in the city. My "garden" was a crowded apartment balcony large enough for 2 lawn chairs. North facing even. The cars in the parking lot reflected an absurd amount of light onto the balcony. I wanted to see if it was enough for plants in spite of no direct sunlight. Sure enough, we still managed to grow herbs and a few tomatoes. Was mostly a proof of concept type thing. I wanted to see if it was possible and it was! The black widows here are pretty uncommon and i find they are usually hunted on. It's ironic that I managed to find one devouring a preying mantis, one of their top predators. The widows are pretty shy. They tend to be run away...but the brown recluse are a whole different story. I kill on sight. Not something I want to piss off. Wolf spiders, fishing spiders and grass spiders=cool | brown recluse=not cool

Quick entry These are my plants currently. The one philodendron has mostly recovered but my peace lily continues to struggle. 🤔

So many wonderful pictures on this thread! @Minanora sent me via my journal. My wife and I have wanted to have a garden for years. 2 years ago we moved into a nice little corner and thus began the garden adventure. How it started Spring Summer Year 2 Looking forward to our third season! Two harvest pictures I experimented with flowers this year too. Never thought I would love them so much. But I think my favorite part of the garden is all the critters I see. I live next to a river and get all sorts of wildlife. I will spare you the deer photos, they annoy me more than anything. I swear they think this garden is their buffet. The bees are plentiful, though only the carpenter bees ever sit still long enough for me to snap photos of them. They love to sleep on these flowers They are so well behaved! And then there are my spider friends. They get fed all the pests, like hornworms! My wife is a huge spider fan! Then there are my more coldblooded crew.Box turtle! BABY!!! Mud turtle! By the end of the year I had even managed to get my first resident hummer. I love nature. It's really fun being it's host and allowing(minus the deer and racoons) to roam the property. Working to restore the wetlands behind my house as well. Fortunately it is not "protected" so I can actually do stuff, but I am working to restore natives and remove invasives. Thanks for letting me share with you guys! Keep the green thumbs coming! *Edit: Cant believe I forgot these guys!

There are currently 5 vining species growing out. 2 philodendron, 1 pothos, 1 fern and 1 monstera. The one Philodendron is sadly not doing well. It was weak when I got it, not sure if it will recover.

Honestly, that's pretty scary. I wonder if that's one of these things where the left hand didn't talk to the right hand. Like the team designing the stand didn't necessarily realize that all 4 sides needed to be load bearing? 🤔

I had two big hurdles to overcome before I could even do anything with plants. I had done research on Riparium and Paladarium plants and had already sorted through my house plants looking for suitable ones. Issue 1: Humidity Issue 2: Lighting One of the biggest issues i've had with this tank, is that I purchased the wrong cover at the LFS. I didn't realize it at first. I had the aquarium for some time before first attempting to put the cover on. Now I have lids for a completely different brand with no way to return/exchange and every time I have gone back since, they've been sold out on the appropriate lid. It's a non-issue now. I made DIY covers out of green house roofing. They were cut to shape but i've not yet cut them out to fit the plants. I want to make sure everything works where they are first. They should help raise the humidity inside and cut down on that dreaded evaporation issue. Arguably the larger issue was how to provide light to the plants. My Fluval lights sit above the lid by another 5-6 inches, but that wasn't going to cut it( I got these risers from Etsy, can provide more info if anyone needs). I decided to use some spare grow lights I had. They were backups just sitting in their boxes so it was a perfect match. Sort of. I used strong magnets to find the nails in the ceiling so as to locate the beams. Unfortunately, they weren't really ideally located where I'd want the lights to hang, so I had to hang the lights both between two beams each. I ran rope between 3 eyes and hung the lights from the rope. After that, I discovered an unforeseen issue. These lights are bright! Surprise, not sure how I forgot that bit... They are meant to simulate daylight, after all. So once again I had to improvise and diy some kind of shade. Used some extra landscaper fabric and folded it into 4 layers. I stapled it together and hung it from the light's small shroud using Gorilla tape. Look I know this sounds ghetto at this point haha It's kinda comical. I have a lot of spare garden supplies sitting around. It worked though; keeps the light from flooding the room and out of your eyes. I used the scrapper as a handle to move the magnets from one area to another. The paint is really thick but the neodymium magnets still found their target. Find two nails on a beam and you have a line. To someone doing something similar. For me the ceiling beams were all offset right of the wall studs, so if you have a studfinder or know where your studs are, you know approximately where to look for a ceiling beam. Dont assume though. Dangerous game right there. For me they were on the right, may be left for you or centered? I'm not a architect. *shrug* Those little shrouds weren't going to help much from this height. Prepare to be amazed at this shocking transformation! TADAHH!!! These only have two settings: Off and Blinding. Meh, It works. Also, a guest appearance of the DIY covers. The emergent plants have been in their spots for awhile but i'll probably wait a few days more before posting about them. So far, most have acclimated well, but two are struggling. I'll go more into it.

Thanks for the advice here. New phone takes all photos in 4:3 but when I crop down to 16:9 that seems to resolve the issue of them flipping. This was probably a week after my wife's adventure. For somewhat obvious reasons, I dont have a before photo. Water was still quite low and dark. Even so, I'd wager there was still 70+/- gallons . We had just gotten some new plants that were acclimating in the forefront-left. I was also playing around with some additional hardscape on the mountain. One of my biggest bummers in designing this tank. I really wanted a high point on the aquarium. High enough that I could have a volcano of pothos spewing out of it. I actually had that for awhile but it didn't look good underwater. Just looked trashy. A big part of that came from one thing I couldn't have really gauged. I knew the substrate would move and settle over time. I underestimated by how much. The "scaffolding" of egg crates was showing it's ugly face at the top of the mountain. I couldn't keep it hidden. Fast-forward and now the surface of the mountain was exposed. I figured, if I am going to restore this tank, I may as well find a way to fix the eye sore, too. I broke what some would consider a cardinal rule. Never mix hardscape. Wood or stone. Yea, I'm sorry but that's hogwash, imo. The stone bit is quite a bit more understandable,. Wood, hmm? I'd challenge anyone who thinks otherwise, to go to a creek/lake and find an area with a single species of wood on it's shoreline. Wont rant, just my opinion. Anyway, I was messing around and I realized I could bring the wooded area to a level that was similar to that of the Poth-o-carry boxes. Shout out to @Matt_AKA_Poth-O-Carry. He's very helpful. So yea, queue my thoughts of bringing emergent plants into the aquarium. The question on my mind; What to grow and how? Next time, on Dragon Ball....oop!

I'm trying... I seem to be having issues with my photos. They all want to post upside down. I have tried editing them to be actually upside down, on my pc, and they still want to post upside down. I looked through the forum a little and found others but the common issue seemed to be related to apple phones. I don't have an apple phone haha So yeah, I haven't been able to figure out how to post them right-side up. If this site allows me to edit them, I have yet to figure it out.

*sigh* My only regret. I constantly forget I have a tattoo. It's one of those things where I'll be walking and someone asks about it, and every time-without fail, I am stuck with this surprise Pikachu face "Oh! I forgot I had that..." Yeah, it's probably the lowest thing on my list of to-dos,