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  1. Daniel
    More small meals are better in some ways. That is how fish in the wild eat. But in other ways fish don't really have to eat on any particular schedule as that too is often how it is the wild. I have had adult angelfish that only got fed every 2 or 3 days and the water stayed very clean and the angelfish stayed very healthy. But on the other hand, I have had juvenile discus and juvenile angelfish that I fed 15 - 20 times a day because they were growing and to maximize growth they needed near continuous food. Most importantly just don't feed any more than the fish will eat in 2 - 3 minutes.
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    Learn something new on the forum everyday! Same dimension base as a 40 breeder, just taller - check! 1970s woodgrain trim - check! I have a 53 gallon tank! I always wondered what that was (neighbor gave me this tank). Interestingly enough those are also the dimensions for the 1930s Historically Accurate Planted Aquarium so this design must go back to the nether reaches of time as far as aquariums go.
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    I am not quite ready to stock the 1930s Historically Accurate Planted Aquarium with either fish or plants, but this morning in shifting aquariums around I need a place to stash some juvenile angelfish and some Vallisneria and Sagittaria, so in they went into the aquarium. Cricket has always been a big fan of angelfish, see earlier angelfish tank here So Cricket too went into the aquarium!
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    See the thing with round yellow cap? That was the mixing valve I used for aquarium water. Notice that is unconnected? It was a bit fiddley and I did not find it particularly useful either. Seemed like a good idea on paper, but not so much in real life. The rest of the system automation including automatic water changes has been critical to my long term success, but sadly not the temperature mixing valve.
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    Doh! You did say that in the post! Sometimes I don't read so good.
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    @StephenP2003 I installed my Google mesh wifi routers over the weekend - 3 pack 1st generation and I can report - fixed all my issues big time. I now have a strong wi-fi signal everywhere in my house (and maybe outside for all I know).
  7. Daniel
    Has anyone witnessed Neocaridina mating? Is my imagination just running away with me? Have I been in quarantine too long?
  8. Daniel
    And another thing about using sunlight are the glorious caustic lines, that is, the shimmer. To achieve this would normally require very expensive Kessil lights. Or it can be free.
  9. Daniel
    Amano shrimp needs a brackish water phase for the larvae to hatch and grow into adults unfortunately 😞
  10. Daniel
    If it were my tank, I would leave it. Biologically it is pure gold. Aesthically....
  11. Daniel
    Plant growth is limited by the scarcest element. The classic illustration is that of a leaky barrel. In this illustration it doesn't matter how much of any other element you have, plant growth will always be limited by nitrogen since that is the lowest stave in the barrel, i.e. the limiting nutrient.
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    For lighting the 1930s Historically Accurate Planted Aquarium I chosen to go with a full spectrum solar solution, that is, sunlight. This definitely has to potential to cause algae and cloudiness problems (although as noted elsewhere on this Forum, algae and cloudiness are possible even without sunlight). Right now the sun is at a high angle and only hits the aquarium for an hour or two a day. As the seasons progress the sun's path across the sky will drop towards the horizon and give the tank progressively more hours of sunlight each day until the Winter Solstice.
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    Fin Rot on my betta?

    Daniel replied to Jack's topic in Diseases

    As they say, it is not a bug, it is a feature. They is just one of the many kinds of normal pigmentation you can get with bettas. It is actually quite attractive to my eye!
  14. Daniel
    You can keep apistos with most other fishes given enough room. But when the apistos start thinking about making a family they will begin to exclude all the other fish from their territory. A typical apisto territory is about the the size of a ten gallon tank. So in a bigger tank sure. In a 10 gallon tank? I wouldn't do it.
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    I second what @MickS77 said. I also include baby Daphnia and other assorted ditchwater animacules. The more live food the better.
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    The safest way to go is to get a heater with a controller. Eventually all heaters fail and if it fails in the on position, it will kill your fish. One way to avoid this is to get a heater and controller. Although this is the safest route it is not the cheapest. This JBJ heater and controller combo is about $100.
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    This pendant light can be scheduled without a timer and has very good depth penetration especially with the narrow beam lens. https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/a360x-controllable-led-aquarium-light-tuna-sun-kessil.html I am using these over a 36" deep 500 gallon tank.
  18. Daniel
    And that is why we all gather here. One of the attractions of fish keeping is that we are the deities over our small aquatic worlds, determining who eats when and what. Though our skill or ignorance we determine who lives and who dies. And if in your world you are a deity, talking to mere mortals who have little understanding of the true nature of the world is futile. So we, the aquatic deities, meet here to hobnob with our fellow supreme beings, to share trade secrets and revel in glory and wallow in the sorrows of being the prime movers. All thanks to our generous host, amen.
  19. Daniel
    As @Ben_RF points out, it is similar to using the reject water. My system does this by having a second membrane in line with first membrane. It is called a 'water saver' system. The reverse osmosis system works by sending pressurized water through a membrane. The issue I see would be introducing the aquarium water back into a pressurized system. The first solution that comes to mind is collecting aquarium water in to a holding container and then using some sort of booster pump to pressurize to water enough to make the RO system work. But in theory at least, this is possible. I think in my water saver system the ratio of product to reject is 1:1.5 which probably as good as you will ever get. So if you were able to get this to work you would still require a significant input of new water with every water change (for the same sorts of reasons perpetual motions machines require inputs of energy from outside the system).
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    @ADMWNDSR83 and the cool thing is all we can do is pat each other on the back and agree with each other because both of us are totally out of reactions for the day 😇
  21. Daniel
    There is a daily limit (or at least a 24 hour limit). The reaction quota seems to be in the 6 - 10 range. I never have enough because there's always 1 more I would like to do, but our generous host knows what he doing because so far this forum has been wonderful!
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    Good eye! I thought that it looked alot like the BHG illustration (which is my visual guide for this project).
  23. Daniel
    Honestly, getting my &^#$%! discus to eat TetraMin. I've kept and bred discus since the late 1980s. The 2 keys to successful discus is keeping them in copious amounts of clean water and getting them to eat a lot of food. It's fairly easy to get healthy discus to eat a lot if you offer them live foods, so that's mostly what I have done over the years. One of things I loved about my Leopoldi angelfish was how un-picky they were when it came to diet and it was one of the reasons my wife didn't want me to sell those. Especially if I was going to go back to keeping discus! But on this latest round of discus when they were just babies I started feeding them Vibra Bites and they liked it. Next I started mixing in TetraMin color granules with the Vibra Bites because they're about the same color. They started eating those too! The discus still like the Vibra Bites a lot better, but they eat the TetraMin also, so that is my greatest achievement in fish keeping in 50 years.
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    Same here, best part of the CARE package was the towel!
  25. Daniel
    The 1930s Historically Accurate Planted Aquarium is finally coming together. I have already decided that it will go near a south facing window, so now the next decision is what kind of substrate. Innes recommends coarse sand, and even mentions builders sand. He doesn't want something that's too fine and could be compacted, but he doesn't want something that's too large where food can hide and become rotten in the fish tank. I decided to get the sand and grit from the creek in my backyard. My wife is the best wife ever and she helps me with all my projects. And this is the final result. It's a little course as I used a number 12 hardware cloth on the bottom of the sifting box.
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