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  1. Daniel
    I have got plants growing out the top in several tanks. In the 1930s aquarium, parrot feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum) and some sort of Alternanthera are growing out the top. The parrot feather is rooted and the Alternanthera is just floating. That is how they were growing in the ditch I found them in so I just continued that when I brought them home. Here are the roots floating. Water sprite grows out the top also if you will let it float. Here is the interior of the 1930s aquarium. I expect the Bacopa in this photo to grow out the top also.
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    It’s all a matter of taste, but if I could get all my fish as small juveniles, that would be my first choice. $4.50 for healthy Corydoras paleatus and no shipping, sounds good to me! I find my fish do better when I buy a decent size group of young fish and raise them in my water feeding them my food. I guess the grass is always greener on the other side of the pond, but I envy your choices. 🙂
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    I have just added a juvenile angelfish to each of the 3 aquariums. This is the one in the EcoComplete tank.
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    Hi Joe. This is my first fish forum. This Forum is full of kind and helpful people who like to talk about fish and plants and even other pets. I think you will like it here.
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    Yes! Also known as a water walking stick. I caught him (or her) in the Daphnia net one day. I have had him for about 6 weeks. I think it is time to take him back to where I caught him and let him go.
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    Well if you don't like dragonfly larva, you will really not like this. I keep one of these in my green water aquarium: It is about 5" long. I know what it is. Any guesses?
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    They come in on plants. Occasionally for me they will come in with my daily Daphnia haul.
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    Umbilical cords! I learn something new on the Forum everyday.
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    My Seneye monitors NH3 (Ammonia) it does not monitor NH4 (Ammonium). At 9:16 am EST before adding Easy Green to my aquarium this morning the ammonia reading on the Seneye was 0.154 parts per million. I added 4 mL of Easy Green at 9:21 am EST. I measured again at 10:48 am EST and the ammonia reading on the Seneye was 0.144 parts per million. The change in the ammonia was a decrease of 0.01 parts per million after adding Easy Green.
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    You probably don't want it in your aquarium. All the Odonates have this 'dinner plate, knife and fork' system that is deadly for small fish and tadpoles. I would remove it out to a pond or ditch. I wouldn't nuke the tank.
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    I think I have my first result in this project and it is that the middle tank (the dirt tank) stays a bit warmer. This has been consistent since the first day when I calibrated all three probes in the same cup using a NIST calibrated thermometer that is certified to be accurate to +/- 0.1 °F. All three tanks have the same 50 watt Aqueon heaters. I set all of the heaters to 80 °F on their local control knob. Since a 50 watt heater in a 40 gallon tank in a 69 °F room will never be able to bring the aquarium temperature to 80 °F all three heaters have run continuously and never turned off, not even once. Since the same heaters are warming the same volume of water for same amount of time, why is the middle tank warmer? I suspect that it is due to the funnily named zeroth law of thermodynamics (physicists came up with this law after they had already named the first three laws and because it was more fundamental and because they are physicist, this passes for humor). Here is are the numbers from the first few days. What say the engineers and other heat minded folks on this forum? Zeroth law? Randomness? Crappy probe calibration? Something else? Future posts will follow changes in plant growth and changes in water chemistry, just wanted to throw this out there before it slipped my mind.
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    @Aubrey You have got my curiosity up. I am not quite ready to guess yet, though.
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    Today I started tracking the water chemistry and other parameters of the three 40 gallon aquariums in the project. The first aquarium I tested was the EcoEcomplete aquarium. According to my API test kit, this was the water chemistry. According to a Tetra Strip this was the water chemistry. According to my Felix Smart Controller's freshwater Seneye, the pH was similar.
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    Same here! @RovingGinger is Shakespeare when it comes to puns!
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    Many people have severe reactions to bloodworms: Fishing for Allergens: Bloodworm-Induced Asthma WWW.NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV Hypersensitivity to bloodworms (chironomid larvae) leading to asthma and other related allergic disorders is becoming common in individuals who...
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    I feed mine mostly baby brine shrimp and blackworms. I have not bred the current crop of E. gilberti, but I did breed the others in the past. The males would make a territory centered on a dense piece of hornwort and then would dance and waggle and flick to lure the females in. The babies ate brine shrimp just like the parents.
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    So when aren't they fry anymore? I think my baby sparkling gouramis are on the verge of just being small fish 🙂.
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    I have some of the same stuff and I looked at it under the microscope this morning. It looks like brown diatoms. I'd say we both have brown diatom algae.
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    That exists. I am doing this with a combination of an 'undersized' 50 watt heater in a 40 gallon breeder and the house temperature set to 69 °F. The result follow nature almost precisely. I believe this can be replicated in a tank of any size. I could also create this curve almost exactly with my Apex controller, but that would be cheating. 🙂 Here is a graph of 3 different aquariums over the last few days, all simulating day/night temperatures and staying within a desired range:
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    @Mikey Walnuts (one of my favorite forum names) Looks good! I love pygmy sunfish! I have E. gilberti currently and have kept E. okatie and E. boehlkei in the past. What do you feed them?
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    I am very cynical. I don't think fish are different from other things humans do. We do what we like and then come up with reasons on why what do is okay (or not okay). How good the reasons seem are usually correlated to whether you think the thing is okay. I keep honey bees and lot of people think that is unethical and cruel and unnatural. I don't agree with their reasons, but isn't that just what you would expect from a beekeeper? Naturally, I will think of all the reasons why I should be able to keep bees because that is what I already thought. But the anti-beekeeping people are thoughtful and reasonable people and make a coherent argument. I am not a big believer in teleology (things are made to serve an ultimate purpose), but then again, of course I wouldn't believe that, right? Humans are selfish, we do what we want, eat what we like, and if other living things suffer, we justify it somehow. One of my hobbies is botany and I love trees. But I killed almost a hundred trees to clear a space to build my house. I felt bad for about an hour and then gave the okay for loggers to cut the trees. I liked those trees, I have kept the logs even until this day. I look at them sometimes and remember the individual trees that had to die so I could have a house. I can't say any of this is ethical, it is just what we do.
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    Yes, I thought your experience would be very helpful!
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    I think the bewilderment is more due to that biology is complicated and it takes time to get a handle on what is important to keeping fish alive than mastering the technology is some sort of new barrier that didn't exist in the past. I worked in a fish store in the mid 1970s and people then where just as bewildered and bedazzled by 1970s technology. I think your @KoolFish97 point about the reef keeping community is spot on. The technology to keep a coral reef in your living room is as much of a draw as are the corals. Certainly the fish in a modern reef aquarium are almost incidental. I have been researching aquarium keeping in the 1930s and they basically had all the same stuff we do now. Here is an ad from 84 years ago this month, the November 1936 issue of 'The Aquarium' magazine, offering glass internal heaters, linear piston air pumps, and even an early canister filter. There were also ads for brine shrimp eggs and rice fish! And my favorite, 'Radio-Activated' fish food (right above the ich cure 😉) Have things really changed. Personally, I think we are as gullible as we ever were. I know I am 😇
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    @Waqas has tried them and posted this recently:
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    My experience on the smelliness of blackworms is different than @ange's. I get mine from Eastern Aquatics where they are farm raised in clean water and do not have any noticeable odor at all. I wonder if our different experiences are due to what the blackworms are fed? If I can get live blackworms they are my number go to live food that I have to purchase (with mosquito larva and Daphnia tied for first on the free live foods). Baby brine shrimp are way, way, less expensive than blackworms and I absolutely love them (in the foods I have to purchase department). Frozen bloodworms are one the best frozen foods for fish like my discus. If I didn't have access to quality live blackworms, I would be feeding a ton of frozen bloodworms. The live foods that I consistently feed day after day are: Live blackworms a couple times a day, especially to the larger fish Baby Brine Shrimp a couple times a day, especially to the smaller fish Live Daphnia, once a day, to everyone The rest of the feedings are usually either Vibra Bites, Xtreme pellets, Tetra Color granules, etc. I start a new cone of baby brine shrimp every 12 hours, and I order 3 lbs blackworms every 3 weeks. I used to keep my blackworms in the refrigerator, but now I keep them under a drippy faucet. I catch the Daphnia every afternoon from my summer tub. As final note blackworms are a classic food for fattening up corys for breeding.
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