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  1. Daniel
    Just got my regular 3 lb shipment of Blackworms today and put them under the dripping faucet. All the little fishes will eat good tonight!
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    Reticulation is like a grid of connected lines or dots. The phrase "reticulating splines" still rings in my head from playing SimCity 2000 to many times many years ago.
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    I think at this point I have more plants growing out of the top of the 1930s aquarium than I have growing underwater.🙂
  4. Daniel
    Like the tooling you would use in say, a HAAS mini-mill?
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    If would probably work for at least a week!🙂
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    Probably, but who really knows, growing bacteria is a black art. But, they gotta eat something. I used to be skeptical of adding beneficial bacteria to an aquarium because the beneficial bacteria are always there anyway whether we add them or not. I think @KBOzzie59 suggested they can even come in to a new aquarium on our hands. But, overtime I am slowly being convinced that these commercial products might not be complete snake oil. The bacteria that process nitrogen in our aquariums are thought to be Nitraspina, Nitrospinacacae, and Nitrospria. These little guys have a disadvantage because they are autotrophs and their only food source is nitrogen. The problem is that there are also lot of heterotrophic bacteria that consume a wide variety of complex organic substances. And, the heterotophs can double their populations every 4 hours, whereas our poor little autotrophic beneficial bacteria double their populations only every 24 to 30 hours. So to give the beneficial bacteria a leg up, we add them on day one and feed them some source of nitrogen (typically ammonia, which can come from uneaten food) and hope they get established before they can be out-competed by their less picky and faster multiplying cousins.
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    I learn something new on the Forum everyday. C. julii have only spots and no trace of the reticulation. C. trilineatus have reticulation especially on the head. Not to hard to spot once it has been explained.
  8. Daniel
    This is the template, or in other words, a general outline of a proposed price sheet. The prices and the fish on the list are flexible. That's why it is a template. If @Hibi's career selling fish doesn't pan out. I see a bright future as a graphic artist! 🙂
  9. Daniel
    I kept thinking the carpet plant seeds looked familiar. They look remarkably similar to clover seeds like you use for sprouts for your salads. This is what sprouted clover looks like. The clover would last a week or two underwater before it finally succumbed.
  10. Daniel
    Usually, if I wouldn't I eat it, I wouldn't feed it to my fish either.
  11. Daniel
    In photosynthesis plants combine carbon dioxide and water during the daytime to produce sugars and oxygen. In the night time this runs in reverse and plants respire by consuming sugars and oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide. So providing carbon dioxide at night time doesn't help your plants.
  12. Daniel
    Water sprite has an angular stem, you can feel it if you roll it around between thumb and forefinger. I haven't had water wisteria for a long time, but my memory was the stem is not angular. Maybe someone with water wisteria can check this?
  13. Daniel
    This is what Vallisnera americana looks like growing the wild. When I have seen the natural substrate it is usually a sandy, or silty river bottom. But, there is hope. If you can temporarily weigh the runners down (even if your substrate is a light loose large gravel) the runners will send roots down and eventually make firm contact and then you can remove the weight. If your question is about how to get the main plant to stay down when you first plant it, then again either find some way of weighing it down or if you have to, then bury the crown. The plant won't like it but it will often grow anyway. Vallisneria is not a hard plant to grow once you get it started but very often I have a devil of a time getting it started.
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    Burying cyanobacteria (blue green algae) would likely be about as effective as burying cockroaches.🙂 But I like the thought of turning a problem into a solution! The Aquarium Co-Op blog has a good post on what do about cyanobacteria here: How to Get Rid of Blue-Green Algae in Aquariums WWW.AQUARIUMCOOP.COM Do you have a mysterious, blue-green slime taking over your aquarium? Or is there a strange smell coming from your fish tank? You might be dealing...
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    I second @MickS77 on the corkscrew Vallisneria. Typically the runners extend to the next patch of soil near the parent plant and then root and grow into new plants. With the Echinodorus the root/crown interface should be just a tiny bit above the substrate.
  16. Daniel
    Is this what you are looking for?
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    When I lived in Tampa Florida in the 80s I found that you could keep just about anything you desired. Nearby Gibsonton, Fl is a hotspot of tropical fish farming in the US (google Segrest Farms). Cory started a thread on the first day of the Forum and many forum members have shared their experiences here:
  18. Daniel
    I use Fusion 360 for setting up milling processes. My guess is you use big boy CAD. What program(s) do you design in?
  19. Daniel
    I occasionally do some work for the lab of Dr. David Tarpy at North Carolina State University (like gluing number tags to the thorax every bee in a colony so the honey bee's movements can be tracked individually). Above: Putting number tags on bees Above: Numbered bees He is one one the leading scientist studying what came to be called 'Colony Collapse Disorder'. He came to the conclusion there wasn't any one cause. Winter losses happen every year (it is the basis of my business). Our current winter losses of honey bee colonies are close to the historical average over the last century. The introduction of varroa mites in the 1990's has probably been the largest single factor in recent winter losses but they can be controlled with management practices. Just like one of the biggest threats to the well being of tropical fish are fishkeepers, one of the biggest threats to honey bees are beekeepers.🙂 Did you know that each winter over 2 million of the 2.5 million honey bee colonies in the US are loaded on to semi-trucks and moved to from places like Maine, and Florida (actually every state) to California to pollinate the almond crop? Each semi-load is worth about $90,000 in fees for the beekeeper and is a very important source of income. The loss of honey bees makes for a good story in the press, but honey bees themselves (which are non-native invasive insects from Eurasia) are doing just fine.
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    I sell honeybees to beekeepers. My busiest times are Winter and Spring because I have to get ready for the Spring rush when beekeepers restock from their winter loses. I don't sell honey, which is what people usually associate with beekeeping, but I do collect a little to give to the landowners where I have my principle outyards.
  21. Daniel
    I suspect the genus is Nymphaea, not sure of species. What state did you see it in? A common one here in North Carolina is Nymphaea ordorata, the American white water lily.
  22. Daniel
    I grow little tiny rotifers for my baby gourami. Rotifers are classic infusoria, but the rotifers are also primary consumers. The rotifers need the primary producers, that is the green free floating algae, to live and grow, hence the need for light for photosynthesis to grow the algae to grow the rotifers.
  23. Daniel
    The only way to truly know if something works is to try it. Your template is actually a business plan in disguise, which is a good thing. Planning is invaluable! You are off to a good start! The one factor you can control is how persistent you are and that just happens to be a very important factor.
  24. Daniel
    Not saying Prime is not a good idea. Just saying that your test results might be skewed for 24 hours after using it so that you would have to take that into account when interpreting the test results. I don’t have an opinion one way or another on Prime.
  25. Daniel
    Seachem Prime can get picked up in the API test results, according Seneye's website: USING SEACHEM PRIME? Testing for ammonia with the test kits above might produce false readings after a water change if you add to much de chlorinator. Seachem's Prime conditioner will give false readings for ammonia, on both Nessler's Reagent and salicylate tests. Sodium thiosulfate, Na2S2O3, in Prime reacts with the chloride ion that is part in the test reagents. According to Seachem after 24 hours you will then be able to test again and get accurate readings. The denitrifying bacteria double in population size about every 24 hours which is slow for bacteria, but still fast by our standards so they should be back in full force soon.
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