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    I pulled that link from here, which pretty much covers everything you need to know about setting up a new aquarium all in place: Freshwater Aquarium Blog - Aquarium Co-Op WWW.AQUARIUMCOOP.COM
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    This is a good start: How to Pick the Best Planted Aquarium Light WWW.AQUARIUMCOOP.COM One of the most common questions we get asked is “What light should I get for my planted aquarium?” The short answer is that it depends. To help you...
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    Eco-Complete is inert so adding fertilizer like Easy Green and Root Tabs is very good idea. Plants like cool water, so that is not a problem. Also, plant often die back at first and then resprout from the roots, so some patience is need. But definitely feed them and give them good light. The carpeting seed plant doesn't seem to grow well in the long run. I think @Casual aquatics tried them, maybe he can report back on his experience?
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    Betta albimarginata can be kept with multiple males (it is a mouthbrooding Betta). Probably best only to keep 1 female however.
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    100% sure those are scuds, otherwise known as Amphipods which are a type of native crustacean, so you are right, they are shrimpy. I absolutely love them and try and maintain them in my aquariums. Unfortunately my fish love them too!
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    What plants mostly need for photosynthesis is reds and blues, white is the least useful except to extent that white is just a mixture of reds, blues, and greens. There are LED lights that you can use only the blues and reds (which results in a purple color) and these lights will grow plants just fine.
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    As a side note I think it is interesting that this thread is the number 1 result on Google for 'Fluval 3.0 Scheduling'. Thank you @Streetwise!
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    The largest file I have ever manage to get uploaded here was not quite 50 MB.
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    You are at the right place. People here are friendly and helpful because we are all in the same boat and just trying to learn. Welcome.
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    I used to keep a lot bettas and my routine was to change the water almost everyday (mainly because they were in 1/2 to 1 gallon jars). I always used aged (at least 24 hours), dechlorinated tap water with no other additives. The less you add to water, the better it is for your fish.
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    If you keep a Bolivian Rams and/or a Pearl Gourami it is very unlikely you would have to deal with any livebearer babies. l agree with @tr0y above and would recommend you try any of the livebearers that you like. They are fun and easy in a community tank and the feature fish you are considering will prevent a population increase.
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    I don't think the parents will kill the fry to protect the eggs, but I have seen exactly what @gardenman is suggesting above in that the older fry will eat eggs and younger fry. Here is some video of sneaky angelfish fry eating eggs.
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    @Maggie If you remember 'Josie and the Pussycats' ...with their long tails and ears for hats, then you and I must be of about the same vintage.🙂
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    @Maggie funny enough, me too! I am much better at Shepardizing a case than I am at the daily science stuff I actually love.
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    Yes, please post photos and videos! Every post is better if it includes photos and videos. and I sure you already knew how to do it, but it is a common question here on the forum.
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    Yes, I have it propagated like this before: I wouldn't replant it though, I would let the leaf and stem float until roots developed.
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    I wish it I owned it! My friend Robin has it and uses it to make a product he a patent on that makes oboe reeds. The Haas is a 3 axis milling machine that mills everything from steel to aluminum, but it will mill plastics too. Robin and I are using it to develop an adapter that allows for the use of a mobile phone as a camera with any microscope. Here is a picture of Robin pulling one out of the Mini Mill. Here is what the adapter looks like on a microscope. Here is what video looks like shot using my iPhone with the adapter. It is pretty cool to be able to make anything you can make a drawing of. We just figured out how to use the Haas to make printed circuit boards, so that opens up a whole new world.
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    @patricia is right not all white hair algae is a plant. I was surprised last week when I put some 'white algae' under the microscope and found out it was a little animal!
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    If the fish seem healthy they probably are. Here is a chart from one my aquariums from last month. As you can see there was nearly a week of the nitrites being 2.0 on the API Freshwater Master Test kit. And the graph: And the tank was cloudy too. 16 Nov 2020 - Dirt But my angelfish and guppies in the aquarium were perky, active and hungry so I didn't let the numbers worry me. And in a few days the nitrites settled down and the tank cleared. So the question you have to ask yourself, is it just the one fish? Do the other fish seem distressed? Do the fish have good appetites?
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    In my largest tanks because of their depth I went with Kessil's a360x with narrow beam reflectors (despite the cost). But for more standard size aquariums I chose Finnex Stingrays because they were durable and inexpensive. You just have to pick the right light for the job.
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    Back when I was working at a tropical fish store in the 70s, if we bought a fish for 10 cents a piece, we sold that fish for $1.00 a piece. But we also sold the aquariums at below cost so you had to make it up somewhere.
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    Just a interesting side note on the names. Angustifolia means 'narrow leafed' and Salicifolia would mean 'willow leafed'.
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    I would recommend these two books: I hope to do nice planted tanks one day.
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    Love the Ambystoma salamander!
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    I keep Pygmy Sunfish: Not my picture, but when the males are in breeding color the picture above doesn't do them justice. The black is like velvet and the the blues are electric. The reason these aren't as valued here as they are in Europe (I think) is they need live food and they will be invisible all the time unless you give them many, many places to hide with an open area that they can come out to to display. @Randy and @Bob had a great discussion about Pygmy Sunfish (Elassoma) on a recent Aquarist Podcast which I would highly recommend giving a listen. I think @Randy and @Bob are about to get in to a throw down to see who can breed them first. I will be following that closely! I have mosquito fish and a couple of blue spotted sunfish females in the 1930's aquarium that I collected this fall in a ditch in Kinston, NC. Keeping those fish is like keeping guppies and Apistogramma, expect Mosquito fish and blue spotted sunfish are much, much hardier. In some state there are regulations about keeping native fish, or at the very least you need a fishing license. Here in North Carolina you do not need a fishing license to collect 'bait' which is what these fish are considered legally.
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