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  1. Daniel
    I don't know the pro's and con's of hydrogen peroxide but not doing anything works fairly well too. My old school 1930's aquarium does not have a filter of airstone or anything that runs on electricity. The fish seem happy and the angelfish are breeding right now. If my house was much cooler or it was winter time, heat would be what I would worry about in a power outage.
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    Two words, photo synthesis. In a planted aquarium pH is low in the morning and high in the evening. The plants in your aquarium consume CO2 and give off O2 in the daytime because of photosynthesis, and conversely at night time plants consume O2 and give off CO2 again because of photosynthesis, which runs in reverse at night. And because CO2 changes the pH of your aquarium, your pH swings up and down on a day/night cycle as seen in this data I collected recently from one of my aquariums: Given that tall of your pH measurements are in the 7 something range, I think your pH is stable.
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    Like @James Black and @Catfish_Lover_Jane I have had escapees. But the mystery was my escapees were plants. I would wake up in the morning and find Vallisneria having jumped out of the aquarium. Then one day the mystery was solved! Turns out my cats have a sense of humor.
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    I love the old retro aquarium stuff. Wow! That site has some very large, very cool vintage fishbowls. Thanks for the link.
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    I will feed baby brine shrimp, baby Daphnia, and then baby mosquito larva at first. I grew the adults up using pretty much the same diet.
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    And if these plants are seasonal, how would the plants know what season it is? Sunlight! For the last 5 month each day has had a light more sunlight than the day before. All the plants have know is that each day is longer than the day before and that would be enough of signal to break dormancy. This is something that plants do all the time. Thanks @OnlyGenusCaps!
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    It is a local plant so the dormancy theory makes a lot of sense.
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    Mainly blackworms, some mosquito larva, some Tetra Color granules. You were asking about the adults right?
  9. Daniel
    Water evaporates away at about an inch a week. When it gets down several inches, I top it off with water from another tank. But there are no traditional water changes.
  10. Daniel
    Even after all of this discussion the question of butter's condimental status seems to be an unresolved paradox. It looks like the Black Hole Information Paradox may be resolved before this one is.
  11. Daniel
    Proteins and other decomposing organic gunk is often in the form of long threads. This excess protein, et al can lead to bubbles taking longer to pop and even cause foam to form at the water's surface. The difference in the size of the bubbles between the 2 airstone could be the difference in how tightly the airstones are screwed down against the felt pads.
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    Back in the 1980's my wife and I worked at Sandy Mush Herb nursery and at the time I think they carried 47 different varieties of thyme. Thinking about that recently inspired my to build a rock wall and order some thyme from Sandy Mush. So far I don't have all the varieties yet, but the ones I have so far are starting to bloom: Up in the vegetable garden over the winter we grow a dozen varieties of garlic and a little broccoli. Both are about to be harvested. Very soon we will put in our summer garden.
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    Okay @quirkylemon103 this update is for you! You asked for an update and it took me a long time to provide one. Spring is the time when a beekeeper works from dawn to dusk and my beekeeping duties have kept me off the forum lately. But as I glanced at the 1930s Historically Accurate Aquarium this morning I noticed the angelfish were spawning and thought this would be a good time for an update. The main thing I have been waiting on is for the Jungle Val (Vallisneria americana) to fill in. It was a long wait. For 5 months the Vallisneria just sat there and did nothing (many other people have this experience with Val, who knows why?) Then about a month ago the Vallisneria decided to wake up and spread like wildfire and it is starting to look like what I had in mind originally. The substrate is about an inch of soil from the asparagus bed in my garden covered with about an inch of sifted gravel from the creek in my backyard. I don't add any additional fertilizers to this aquarium other than what came with the original dirt. Just a reminder...this a very inexpensive super low maintenance aquarium. There is no light but sunshine through the window. There is no heater so the aquarium stays at room temperature. There is no filter except for that provided by the plants. There isn't even an airstone for goodness sake! Just a 100 year old glass box filled with water. I did not cycle the tank before I put fish and plants in. I do not know what the parameters of the water are. I do not know the temperature, ph, kH, nitrate, nitrite, or ammonia levels in this aquarium. I hope this pair angels will raise a school of little baby angelfish because wouldn't that be cool. About 4 months ago the female angelfish in the video above was snagged out of this aquarium by one my cats and played with and chewed on for a while before I noticed what was happening. She looked pretty bad when I put her back in the aquarium, and she looked even worse when her few remaining fins dissolved away over the course of the couple days after I rescued her from the cat. My wife thought she was a goner for sure. But her fins and her health grew back over time and now she is healthy enough to breed. She is the little angelfish that could!
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    Please keep your replies meaningful.
  15. Daniel
    Try AquaBid. Sellers are listed by Country, and there are quite a few sellers from Thailand.
  16. Daniel
    Cool video, and I promise this is last time I will bring up honey bees on the forum today, but the professor and students in a neighboring bee lab use RFID to track the movements of individual bees. This study tracks queen mating flights. Imagine building up a map of everywhere your fish go and when and the interesting patterns involved.
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    I get stung every day because I’m in dozens of beehives over the course of several hours. It happens, but it’s not really that bothersome. I have never been stung marking a bee. I am holding the bee and there’s no way the bee can get at me. But when I’m facedown in a beehive and one flies up and pops to me in the ear there’s nothing I can do about that. 🙂
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    I am way more interesting on social media than real life. Showing my bee nerm stuff to my fish nerm friends looks cool, but the most of the world gives a big yawn. That's why is fun to hang out on the forum. 🙂 And I guarantee you my wife thinks I am boring this week. I have been reading a book called Einstein's Fridge about entropy. And I think if I talk to her about entropy one more time...I think she will hit me pretty hard.
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    I put a little glue on a numbered plastic disk, pick up the bee and then slide the disk on to the top of the thorax using a toothpick. When I help out at the NC State bee lab, sometimes we have to number thousands of bees for the experiments the grad students are running. I take photographs of my fish (mainly discus and angelfish) in order to keep track of individuals. Many fish look nearly identical. I glad I don't have to glue tags to fish. 🙂
  20. Daniel
    I keep cats and tropical fish for pets and honey bees for my day job. With the bees because there is money on the line, I need to keep records who is where and what I need to know about what needs to be done to whom when. These are bees records, but my fish records would look the same. I keep records on each breeding individual, including photographs: Every time I look at a hive, I take notes: I abstract my notes into a single sheet of paper to use as a visual daily to do list: And because I do a lot of breeding, I have to know who is related to whom so as to avoid consanguinity issues: If I start breeding discus more intensely again, I will use this same system to keep track of the discus.
  21. Daniel
    Probably not hydra, could be detritus worms. Do you have a photo?
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    The discus don’t eat the adults, but they definitely might eat some babies. But if the Otocinclus are breeding all the time, there’s no way they’ll eat all of them. It is likely that overtime there will be more Otocinclus than I know what to do with. But that’s a good problem, and I look forward to meeting the challenge.
  23. Daniel
    Gotta be baby Otocinclus as the only fish in the aquarium are discus. I love baby fish!
  24. Daniel
    More than 125, maybe 225...for me it is the 500 gallon tank in livingroom. My next largest tanks are 75 gallon aquariums, big enough by normal standards, but not that large when it comes to discus.
  25. Daniel
    I am reposting this because I think it might be relevant here -- When giving advice in a post it can be helpful to explain the thinking behind the advice you are giving and your personal experience that leads you to feeling confident about the specific advice your are giving. I'll give an example. The original post reads something like this: Help! I think my fish have fungus, what should I do?? The next forum member giving advice says: 'Treat with salt' What is missing in the answer is quite a bit. Why salt? What does salt do to a fungus? Is there any situation that salt would not be appropriate? Have you personally had a fish with a fungal infection that you treated with salt, and if so, what were these results? Maybe something like this would be even more helpful: 'One common treatment for fungus is to use aquarium salt. My Serpae tetra recently had a fungal infection and I treated with salt. I left the salt in the water until the fungus cleared up (which was about a week). After that I did a water change. If the fungus had come back, I would have dosed with salt again at a higher concentration for an additional week. Salt works by dehydrating the fungus, which kills the fungus (but not the fish). Do you have plants in your aquarium? If so you need to know that plants are sensitive to salt so you might need to move your fish to a quarantine tank if you intend to treat with salt.' Not every post has to be this detailed, but the additional information can be very helpful and educational, which is one of the prime reasons we are all here.
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