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  1. Daniel
    Like @MickS77 and @toothgrinder I went with a RO system from Bulk Reef Supply. In the long run it is nice to be able to control what is in your water.
  2. Daniel
    My favorites are hornwort and water sprite. The hornwort I have is happy when it floats willy-nilly.
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    Here is a pretty cool picture of Crinum calamistratum growing and flowering in a stream in Cameroon in West Africa . It is in the Lily family. I haven't grown Crinum calamistratum but given its root structure it is very likely a root feeder. But as @ChefConfit mentions above, just because you have roots doesn't rule out absorbing nutrients through your stems and leaves. Many times it can be a little of both. Crinum calamistratum is definitely a 'bulb' plant like so many of the lilies are. I would follow @Irene's recommendation and leave it like it is. Has anyone had their Crinum calamistratum flower like the picture above?
  4. Daniel
    If your fish are fine, that is the best indicator.
  5. Daniel
    I am pretty sure the betta in the thumbnail is Betta albimarginata 🙂
  6. Daniel
    Very likely not relevant to helping @MollyMama20. They were quarantined for 4 weeks before she moved them.
  7. Daniel
    These questions are always difficult because no two tanks and two no cycles are ever the same. It like when you cook a recipe the first time and it turns out great, but then using the same ingredients and following the same recipe it comes out differently the second time. Cycling like this doesn't even use the same ingredients each time. The water is different, the mix of bacteria is different, the process varies from person to person. I could go on, but basically this is a dark art and know one really knows what is happening. Any completely random next step you take is probably as good as any other at this point.
  8. Daniel
    Your plants might even be happier without the heaters. They prefer room temperature. It is the animals that need the warmth.
  9. Daniel
    Definitely social. I wouldn't do just one with Discus.
  10. Daniel
    Discus aren't as hard as they are made out to be especially if you raise them from juveniles. By the time they are grown they are totally acclimated to your water and your style of fishkeeping. Discus are my favorites in the personality department. They recognize individual humans (they know me from my wife). I think they recognize individual cats.
  11. Daniel
    @Lizzie Block had a good post on how to attach video here: The shapes looks like planaria, but the bristles on the side give me pause. Possibly not planaria?
  12. Daniel
    @Patrick M. Bodega AquaticsMine are preparing to breed, or at least they are beginning to pair up. I am sorry for the trouble you had with your last batch, but I thought you had ordered some new one for the 75 gallon?
  13. Daniel
    For mosquito larva just add water and yard debris or plant clippings. For Daphnia, make green water with by adding soil or straw or Easy Green. Next add some crushed coral and then add starter Daphnia. Continue to feed the Daphnia with some combination of these ingredients ground down to a powder:
  14. Daniel
    Fingers are pretty good thermometers. To me 70° feels cool-ish and 80° feels warm-ish
  15. Daniel
    This might not be as feasible as a terrarium inside an aquarium, but ever since @Alesha posted this photo I keeping thinking about putting an aquarium inside another aquarium.
  16. Daniel
    I agree with @ange. I have hydra and I have fry. I have never seen a hydra catch a fry. I bet it could happen but I have never witnessed it. If I feed a lot baby brine shrimp or baby Daphnia my hydra populations explode. When I stop feeding baby brine shrimp and baby Daphnia, the hydra disappear. I have seen swordtails and guppies pick at them and my sparking gouramis eat them too. Personally I wouldn't put chemicals in an aquarium to get rid of hydra. I think they are pretty cool. Here is some video I shot recently of hydra eating baby brine shrimp.
  17. Daniel
    Maybe so, how warm does the water feel to your hand? Also it is always good to check with a second thermometer. And platys are okay with temperatures in the low 70s.
  18. Daniel
    I would turn the heater down to 74 - 75 degrees and see when it cuts off on its own. Thermometers and heaters are both fairly inaccurate when it come to temperature.
  19. Daniel
    @Jack.of.all.aquariums has a breeding journal here on the forum Spotted Congo Puffer Breeding Project Journal - Photos, Videos & Journals - C.A.R.E. (aquariumcoop.com) What @Preston John doesn't know about spotted Congo puffers isn't worth knowing: Let’s see what you feed your PUFFERFISH! - General Discussion - C.A.R.E. (aquariumcoop.com) @Randy interviewed @Preston John on breeding spotted Congo puffers on the Aquarist Podcast (147) Ep. 42 - Preston John on Breeding Tetraodon schoutedeni (Congo Spotted Puffer) - YouTube
  20. Daniel
    I use them to grow mosquito larva Daphnia.
  21. Daniel
    It is definitely a little more attractive because it wiggles. This isn't empirical evidence, but they way I think of it is it is the difference between frozen food from the store and fresh food from the garden. I don't know if one is better than the other, but I know which one I prefer if given a choice. I know I could pick out the fresh food from the garden in a blind taste test.
  22. Daniel
    I bought them from Aquabid at the end of August 2020. They were described as: "Xiphophorus helleri, Yucatan. The auction is for seven 3/4 inch juveniles. They are a quite pretty fish with a Red-Orange thick horizontal bar the length of their body and a long yellow sword which is thickly edged in black. I got my stock from Europe in 2018." I was looking for a wild type swordtail and these turned out better than I imagined they would.
  23. Daniel
    I agree with @ange as long as the substrate isn't freshly broken glass bottles, your Corydoras will be just fine. Good food and clean water are the best priorities.
  24. Daniel
    If your betta seems happy, I wouldn't worry about your water parameters. Test results can be scarier than they really are. Usually the best test is how the fish are doing.
  25. Daniel
    Even older magazines from the 1930s and 1940s. The internet of its day. 🙂
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