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  1. Daniel
    Here is a good explanation:
  2. Daniel
    Yes, but some plants move easily and for some plants it is much more of a set back. What kind of plant are you thinking of moving?
  3. Daniel
    @Irene had this post about columnaris:
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    Snails are hermaphrodites, that is both male and female at the same time. The gold snail was likely trying to fend the blue snail off from being the male. It's complicated but both snails are competing to be the male as they tryst. It is cheap and easy to be the male with just as many offspring as being the female which requires producing the resources to make all those eggs. So the snails wrestle to see who can be the male.
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    Endlers livebearers are very closely related to guppies. So closely in fact that both guppies and Endlers can interbreed together. Endler's are named Poecilia wingei, while guppies are named Poecilia reticulata. They are named after Canadian scientist John Endler who found them in Laguna de Patos, near the Cumana city dump, in northeastern Venezuela in 1975. I prefer Endlers over 'regular' guppies because they are so colorful, but other than the intense wild type color patterns Endlers have, there is not much difference. Both Endlers and regular guppies are voracious eaters and will pick at and eat algae, but not enough to be keep algae at bay.
  6. Daniel
    For me, I use a magnet to remove algae from the front glass. Every once in a while I might do a water change.
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    Yes, it is green hair/slime algae. I get it sometimes in new aquariums, even those with good circulation. But after a while (sometimes a week or three) it just seems to burn itself out and then never comes back. I help it die back sometimes by siphoning it out. It comes out in gooey glops.
  8. Daniel
    Those appear to be immature hornwort flowers. Cannot tell for sure if they male (staminate) or female (pistallate), but my guess is they are male.
  9. Daniel
    In my fishroom, I don't cycle my new aquariums. I add water and plants from established aquariums and then the fish all within a few minutes. The processing of fish waste continues in the new aquarium with the bacteria adjusting their population size to available nitrogen.
  10. Daniel
    Flexibility was what I was thinking with this layout which is 2 layers that are both 96" long and 24" wide. The top layer is 18" above the bottom layer. Most lengths and widths are evenly divisible into these numbers, i.e. 96" is 2 x 48" or 3 x 36" or 4 x 24". By making each shelf 24" wide, I can turn 20 H or 10 gallons aquariums sideways if I need a lot of aquariums. I happened to choose 3 x 36" on both layers (top layer is fry grow out tanks and bottom layer dirted tank project tanks), but I could rearrange in a heartbeat if I change my mind.
  11. Daniel
    There was just a little more nerm advice in Chapter 22 that has some real jewels in it. Like: age your water quarantine your fish use a boat load of plants! don't resort at once to chemical treatment, check the food and environment first! check out native fish!
  12. Daniel
    Just think, that book was written in 1936 but most of those maxims get repeated everyday here on the forum. Thank you so much for posting that!
  13. Daniel
    It wouldn't bother me. In my experience the green slime algae won't grow well if at all in a mature aquarium just because a little got introduced. Most of that stuff is in aquarium water at all times and we only see when the conditions are right for it to 'bloom'. But it is not like it wasn't already there anyway.
  14. Daniel
    I kept a lot of bettas over the years in a wide variety of containers and found bettas always had a propensity for jumping if you let them. I never saw any correlation between either pH or water quality that would lead a betta to jump any more than normal.
  15. Daniel
    That is so cool! I love seeing what is in the water. We often don't think about all the diverse life in our aquariums because that life is so small. Small size though does not equal small importance as the food and energy webs our of tanks are much complex than just snails, plants and fish.
  16. Daniel
    @Aubrey If you have any more content like you posted above, I would love to see that! That was one of the better posts of all time.
  17. Daniel
    Yeah, you see the root term 'rheo' meaning flow appear in several English words like rheostat (flow control) and diarrhea (flow through). A rheophyte would be a flow plant.
  18. Daniel
    I have a 50 gallon aquarium directly in front of a South facing window and the sunlight causes no problems with temperature, even though it gets full sun for most of the day. And there are no window blinds or curtains at this location. If the sun is up, it is shining directly into this aquarium. I am not sure if it makes a difference but the window glass for the house is 'low-e'. Algae has not been an issue, but there was a episode of green water for a few weeks before it cleared up.
  19. Daniel
    I have always waited 72 hours just to be sure.
  20. Daniel
    Here was his answer from an earlier thread:
  21. Daniel
    @AtomCatMatt I put 1 pot of Baby's Tears in all my dirted tank project tanks. All the tanks have the same lighting and equipment, but the substrate and fertilization differ. In the Eco-Complete aquarium, they have faded away: In the Nerm tank which gets Root Tabs under the gravel, the one little pot has exploded in all directions: Your guess is as good as mine. My guess is they seem to appreciate the fertilizer as the lighting is the same in both tanks.
  22. Daniel
    @Lizzie Block has a good post on how to upload photos:
  23. Daniel
    Sometimes, two females will pair up and lay eggs. Is it possible that this is what is happening? On the other hand, if you do have a male and female pair, I have seen pairs breakup when one of the members was unsuitable.
  24. Daniel
    Worry less and enjoy more.
  25. Daniel
    I have water sprite in aquariums that are room temperature, approximately 68°F and it is growing quickly. I also have water sprite in discus aquariums kept at 86°F and it is growing well there too. So it appears temperature is not a critical factor in cultivating water sprite. But like @gardenman says, water sprite is a quirky plant. Sometimes it takes off and sometimes it doesn't without any discernible reason for why. Typically there is no low temperature limit for aquarium plants. If it is warm enough to keep even cool water fish, then it is warm enough for almost all plants. The same cannot be said for the warmest temperatures that are good for discus and rams, etc. Although Vallisneria (another quirky plant) and Amazon swords do fine in the mid 80s, not every plant thrives in the upper end of the warm range.
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