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  1. Daniel
    So if it is the discus you intend to quarantine one option would be quarantine them in the 75 gallon prior to adding the other 16 tetras. If you have concerns about the discus infecting your 4 neons and 1 betta you could move the neons and betta. I know you have concerns about internal parasites so you have the choice of just treating everybody in the 75 gallon or again moving the neons and bettas. The discus are your largest and most expensive fish. It might be prudent to start them in the 75 gallon?
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    This is what Cory recommends:
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    Wow! What a crowd. It looks like a Christmas riot with the red, white and green.
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    @BlackLabelCarling That is so cool! Talk about your Betta sororities, you have an entire tank of males and females. Seeing the males size each other up is wonderful. Most people don't have the opportunity to get to observe the full range of Betta behaviors so I love those videos.
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    I collected banana plant in the wild a few weeks ago (they are native to North America). Quite a large number of them were floating. It is their natural state as the bananas are somewhat buoyant.
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    @Wisnasky-tank half of the plants you listed above are on the Co-Op site and in stock (I just checked). But the guidelines prohibit people posting links to competitors,
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    I frequently collect native plants here in North Carolina. The main thing to watch for on plants are snails and dragonfly larva if you don't want either. But I have all kinds of weird stuff including tadpoles, stick insects and even fish show up in the plant collecting bucket.
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    Black crappie feed in winter.
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    I don't know, it didn't show up when I googled it.
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    Salvinia, it is a kind of floating fern.
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    I once put some Endlers in my heavily planted angelfish tank and I could never catch them all when it was time for them to go. Over time their breeding rate was faster than my catching rate. Eventually, I resorted to this: And once I had caught the last female, the problem was solved. Before I got the trap, I would net the fish out when they were sleeping and this worked up to a point, but I never could get all the fish. Also @Bill Smith in yet another clever invention he as posted on the forum came up with this inexpensive alternative. I bet this would work for larger fish if modified.
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    @TheDukeAnumber1 Apparently I can tap into the data streams from my 3 Seneyes if I hook them up to a Raspberry Pi. That looks like fun to me. I have got a couple Model 4's laying around (somewhere) and if I can ever tear myself away from the Forum for a few minutes I will try and set this up. Wouldn't it be cool to tap into this data? This is from my dirted tank project.
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    @Patrick M. Bodega Aquatics does the 75 gallon tank currently have any fish in it? And is this the tank where the discus are going?
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    This is some sort of Alternanthera. It has cool roots and grows out the top (big stem and white roots, ignore the duckweek). Grows out of the top nicely. I just started some red mangroves in the big tank, but nothing to report on these yet.
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    Daphnia

    Daniel replied to AJE's topic in General Discussion

    The trick to growing Daphnia is growing green water. Sunlight is good for green water and therefore is good for Daphnia. The bigger the container the better. Here is a green discussion that @Kat_Rigel started earlier:
  16. Daniel
    I with you, I only clearly see 4, but I sorta kinda see 3 partials that could be shrimp?
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    At first I filled with water from the ditch I caught the fish and shrimp in. But after that I have just used the well water from our house 🙂
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    I see that now. When I first read this: 1957 erschien in den Niederlanden das Buch "Aquariumplanten", das 1966 in der zweiten Auflage gedruckt wurde. 1971 brachte der Verlag Eugen Ulmer die erste deutsche Ausgabe unter dem Titel "Aquarienpflanzen" heraus. 1990 wurde die zweite deutsche Auflage publiziert, die auf der 1983 erschienenen vierten niederländischen Auflage basiert. In der deutschen Neuauflage wurde aber der Abschnitt über Wasserkelche komplett aktualisiert und umfasste alle bis dahin bekannten I read the part in red to mean the book was in Dutch. I now see that the 1990 edition I purchased is in German and based off of the 1983 Dutch edition.
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    I have always wondered if the plant isn't called 'baby's tears' because trying and failing to get it to grow will make one cry like a baby. I like your ceramic ring idea. In my the aquariums in my dirted tank project, I just crudely jammed the plants into the substrate, burying leaves and all. This leaves just a few leaves poking up above the surface. Not the best way I admit, but it holds the plants down.
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    As requested by @quirkylemon103 here is an update on the 1930s aquarium. I added plants more than a month ago and have been waiting for the Vallisneria to grow (which as everyone knows could be a long wait). This picture is from earlier this morning. It is hard to see the critters in the aquarium in this photograph, but mainly there are blue spotted sunfish, mosquito fish, and ghost shrimp all collected from the same ditch in Kinston, North Carolina on the same day back in early October. But at long last (maybe) the Vallisneria is beginning however tentatively to send out runners. @akconklin how many shrimp can you count in the photo?🙂 When and if I can get the Vallisneria to fill in I will change the look of the aquarium. Up until now this has been the 1910's historically accurate aquarium. Gravel from my creek, plants and fish from roadside ditches, etc. But by the 1930's, often call the 'Golden Age of Tropical Fishkeeping' many more kinds of equipment and fish had become available to the hobby. Ultimately, the look I am going for is this. I have the angelfish, zebra fish, red swordtails and similar gravel in hand. Now all I need is the !%&* Jungle Val to fill in and then I will remodel the aquarium and bring it forward into the 1930s
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    Myrio (Myriophyllum sp.) naturally abandons leaves that are further away from the light source. Here is a picture I took on October 5, 2020 on a plant collecting trip of Myrio growing in a garbage choked roadside ditch. You can see in this photo that the Myrio in the wild is doing just what your Myrio is doing in your aquarium. If you allow it to keep on growing, Myrio also makes for a nice emersed plant too. This is that same Myrio a few weeks later in one of my aquariums. And yes, those are roots on your Myrio. They are called adventitious roots. Many plants do this as a way of collecting nutrients from the water column. You can plant it deeper if you like, it will likely to continue to drop lower leaves.
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    This isn't a big thing, or a thing we didn't all know, but this photo is a good illustration of what causes algae. Notice how the algae stop a few inches from the water line (almost as if I had cleaned the glass with a magnetic algae scrubber)? Lights! It is the lights. Algae grows where it gets good light. Above that point on the glass the algae stops getting direct light and only receives indirect light. It is not like we didn't all already know this, I just like the clarity of this example as a reminder so when the question arises, 'how do I get rid of algae' the amount of lighting should always be one of the things that comes to mind.
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    @Ruud I was searching for a decent botany book on aquarium plants and I found one and purchased it. It is called Aquarienpflanzen and the language it is published in is Nederlands. Do you know anyone who can read Nederlands?🙂
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    @Patrick M. Bodega Aquatics If the discus you just purchased are going into an aquarium that is otherwise unoccupied, then you don't need a quarantine tank. Are the discus going into the tank with the copepods in the aquarium?
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    I kept this aquarium from 2007 until 2013 with substrate that was 5 - 6" in the areas with the least substrate and at least 15" deep in the area to the right in this photo. Plant growth was not an issue. In a successful hunt for the chemosynthetic bacteria (Beggiatoa sp.) that feed on hydrogen sulfide gas, the deadly toxin mentioned above, my son and I dug through several feet of hydrogen sulfide producing anaerobic muck in a salt flat. The photo is at low tide. At high tide this area is full of shrimp, juvenile fish and adults. At high tide there were visible bubbles of hydrogen sulfide gas which you could also smell (smells like rotten eggs). Whatever the effect of the toxic gases coming from the deep sand and the hydrogen sulfide producing anaerobic muck below that, one of the effects was not to kill fish or plants. On the contrary, these salt flats are the nurseries of massive numbers of baby fish and the foundation of North Carolina coastal fishing industry.
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